External

Definition: External

External

Adjective

1. Happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; "the external auditory canal"; "external pressures".

2. Coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups".

3. From or between other countries; "external commerce"; "international trade"; "developing nations need outside help".

4. Exogenous.

5. Purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.

Noun

1. Outward features; "he enjoyed the solemn externals of religion".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "external" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: External

Evidence

Oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof; (demonstration); evidence in chief.

Exteriority

Adjective: exterior, external; outer most; outward, outlying, outside, outdoor; round about; extramural; extralimitary, extramundane.

Physical Sensibility

External senses.

Crosswords: External

Yes, but his external existence was in no way compared to his internal agony of the loneliness he felt (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

A great teacher has little external history to record (The Emperor's Club; writing credit: Neil Tolkin)

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References

• The World Market for Electronic Calculators Capable of Operation without an External Power Source: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2001 Report on External Wall Insulation: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for External Wall Insulation: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for External Sanitary Pant Liners (reference)

• The World Market for Iron and Steel Tubes and Pipes with Internal and External Circular Cross-Sections and External Diameter over 406.4 mm Excluding Tubes and Pipes: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Environment Energizers: The Quantum Advantage, How to Energize Your Inner and External Environment for Greater Creativity, Productivity, Health (reference)

• Sound and Symbol: Music and the External World (reference)

• Strategies for Better Thinking: An Advanced Model for Internal and External Performance Consultants (reference)

• The Politics of Defense in Japan: Managing Internal and External Pressures (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Udenrigshandelen Fordelt Pa Varer Og Lande = External Trade (reference)

• Monthly Bulletin Of External Trade = Manedsstatistikk Over Utenrikshandelen (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Glands of External Secretion (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• DIGIPOWER SOLUTIONS DPS-9000 PowerPack External Battery Pack (reference)

• PANASONIC External Digital Camera Flash (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Davis 7859 External Temperature/Humidity Sensor (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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These are several schematic drawings of the anatomy of the breast, showing the internal and external structures of the breast. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Syphilis is passed from person to person through direct contact with a syphilis sore containing T. pallidum bacteria, and occurring mainly on the external genitals, vagina, anus, or in the rectum. Credit: CDC.

The First Space Shuttle External Tank. Credit: NASA.

Discovery External Tank Connection Check. Credit: NASA.

External chutes for airborne expendable bathythermographs. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Plate 259. Diagrams of internal and external organs of the oyster. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

External view of the Interpretive Center. Credit: Gary Meyer.

This image represents the equilibration of osmotic stress among the phase under study and the external stressing solution in vast excess across a semipermeable membrane. At equilibrium the osmotic pressure of the stressing solution is identical to the osmotic pressure stressing the subphase. Credit: NICHD.

As the external osmotic pressure stresses the subphase, water (as well as small solutes) is exchanged across the semipermeable membrane. The free energy change connected with the water exchange is equal to the osmotic work. Credit: NICHD.

[Reflex action in response to external stimuli]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Laws politic, ordained for external order and regiment amongst men, are never framed as they should be, unless presuming the will of man to be inwardly obstinate, rebellious, and averse from all obedience to the sacred laws of his nature; in a word, unless presuming man to be, in regard of his depraved mind, little better than a wild beast, they do accordingly provide, notwithstanding, so to frame his outward actions, that they be no hindrance unto the common good, for which societies are instituted. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. (reference)

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External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society

For him the external world had scarcely an existence

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Health

In this type of surgery, no external incision is needed. (references)

This condition is known as a thrombosed external hemorrhoid. (references)

Scientists call external time cues zeitgebers (German for "time givers"). (references)

Business

Of this total, $346 M represented external services. (references)

GCC talks on establishing a current external tariff continue. (references)

The Mercosur Common External Tariff (MCET) Schedule is used to classify imports. (references)

Children

Pakistan

A board was to be set up to enforce the regulations, oversee participating schools, and control all internal and external funding for participating schools. (references)

Civil Liberties

Congo

Many recognized churches have external ties, and foreign missionaries are allowed to proselytize. (references)

Uzbekistan

Passports serve as both internal identity cards and, when properly certified, as external passports. (references)

Economic History

Fiji

External debt (1997): $213 million. (references)

Burundi

Total external debt (1997): $1.247 billion. (references)

Morocco

Current external debt stands at about $19 billion. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

Throughout the year, war continued with external intervention on both sides. (references)

Morocco

Aside from external pressures, resource constraints also affect the court system. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The external and internal closures contributed to increased unemployment and poverty in the occupied territories. (references)

Political Economy

SINGAPORE

Singapore has no external public debt. (references)

UNITED KINGDOM

The UK has no meaningful external public debt. (references)

Egypt

These income sources are vulnerable to external shocks. (references)

Political Rights

Burkina Faso

The legislature is independent, but it remained susceptible to external influence from the executive branch. (references)

India

On the advice of the Prime Minister, the President may proclaim a state of emergency in any part of the national territory in the event of war, external aggression, or armed rebellion. (references)

Trade

Botswana

Botswana has kept its external borrowing to a minimum. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

In general, barring the red tape, large shipments can be accommodated within and external to Côte d'Ivoire. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

There is an external rail line that runs to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, approximately 1,025 miles from Abidjan. (references)

West Bank

Israel retains responsibility for external security and for internal security and public order of Israeli settlements within the West Bank. (references)

Worker Rights

Tajikistan

External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein. (references)

Russia

Law enforcement sources agree that often some form of document fraud is committed in the process of obtaining external passports and visas, but they are uncertain to what extent this involves official corruption rather than individual or organized criminal forgery and fraud. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "external": compression of the external popliteal nerve ♦ emergency exposure to external radiations ♦ external acoustic duct ♦ external advertising ♦ External Advisory Group ♦ external affairs ♦ external anchor ♦ external angle ♦ External angles ♦ external audit phases ♦ external auditory canal ♦ external auditory meatus ♦ external bit ♦ external body part ♦ external border ♦ external borders ♦ external carotid ♦ external carotid artery ♦ external circuit ♦ external conductivity ♦ external Data Representation ♦ external delays ♦ external device ♦ external diameter ♦ external diseconomies ♦ external drive ♦ external ear ♦ external ear canal ♦ external economies ♦ external factors ♦ external fat ♦ external file service ♦ External Fixators ♦ external flow ♦ external force ♦ external genitalia ♦ external gill ♦ external gun ♦ external haemorrhoids ♦ external heat ♦ external hemorrhoids ♦ external iliac artery ♦ external iliac vein ♦ external imbalance ♦ external interrupts ♦ external IPR ♦ external jugular vein ♦ external leaking ♦ external liabilities ♦ external link ♦ external load ♦ external loan ♦ external loss time ♦ external maxillary artery ♦ external memory ♦ external migration ♦ external nasal vein ♦ external organ ♦ external orifice ♦ external photoemission ♦ external priority interrupts ♦ external processor loop ♦ external Qi Gong ♦ external Qigong ♦ external radiation ♦ external rectus muscle ♦ external registers ♦ external reinforcing force ♦ external respiration ♦ external risk ♦ external screw ♦ external senses ♦ external sort ♦ external sorting ♦ external storage ♦ external subscriber data file ♦ external subscribers data file ♦ external trade ♦ external trade gap ♦ external treatment ♦ external use ♦ external voucher ♦ external world ♦ for external application ♦ for external application only ♦ for external use ♦ thrombosed external haemorrhoid ♦ thrombosed external hemorrhoid ♦ tongued washer with external tongue ♦ undefined external reference. Additional references.

Beginning with "external": external-beam radiation, external-combustion engine, external-wall.

Ending with "external": component-to-external, internal-external.

Containing "external": Internal-External Control.

Albanian

i sipërfaqshëm (futile, ostensible, perfunctory, superficial, terraneous), i jashtëm (adventitious, apparent, exterior, extern, foreign, out, outdoor, outer, outlying, outside, outward, oversea, overseas), i huaj (alien, exotic, extern, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, gringo, interlude, outlandish, outside, oversea, overseas, peregrine, strange, stranger, tramontane), i dorës së dytë (off, second class, second rate). (various references)

Arabic 

خارج (foreign, outer, outside of), ‏معد للاستعمال الخارجى, ‏مظهر خارجى (exterior), ‏سطحي (cursory, exterior, facile, frothy, perfunctory, peripheral, primary, shallow-minded, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, surface, unexperienced, unintelligent), ‏خارجي (ecto-, exterior, extern, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, incident, outer, outermost, outward, peripheral). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страничен (adventitious, adventive, aisle, by, circumstantial, collateral, exterior, incidental, indirect, lateral, marginal, oblique, off, outside, postern, side), чуждестранен (alien, exotic, foreign, outlandish, Peregrin, strange, tramontane), външен (adventitious, adventive, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, formal, inorganic, ostentatious, outdoor, outer, out-of-door, outside, outward, over, overall, oversea, overseas, showy, surface), задочен (extramural), повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty). (various references)

Chinese 

外部 (external part). (various references)

Czech

externí (nonresident, outside), zahranièní (foreign, outlandish, overseas), vnìjší (exterior, extern, extraneous, extrinsic, male, objective, outer, outside, outward, over), povrchový (superficial). (various references)

Danish

ydre (outer, outside), ekstern. (various references)

Dutch

extern (outer, outside), uitwendig (outer, outside), buiten- (outer, outside, peripheral). (various references)

Esperanto

ekstera (outer, outside). (various references)

Faeroese

ytri (outer, outside), uttanum (outer, outside). (various references)

Farsi 

سطح (Sheet, Surface), خارجی (Alien, Exoteric, Exterior, Extraneous, Guest, Outsider, Strange), خارج (Abroad, Away, Out), ظواهر, ظاهر (Apparent, Appearance, Aspect, Face, Garb, Guise, Habit, Hue, Look, Mien, Ostensible, Outside, Rind, Surface), بیرونی (Exterior, Out, Outdoor, Outer, Outward, Outwards, Over), بیرون (Abroad, Away, Out, Outdoor, Outdoors, Outside, Surface, Without). (various references)

Finnish

ulkopuolinen (outer, outsider, outward), ulkonainen (outward), ulkoinen, ulko (exterior, outer, outside, outward). (various references)

French

externe (extern). (various references)

German

extern, äußerlich (abroad, cortically, externally, extrinsic, extrinsical, formal, out, outside, outward, superficial, without), außen (hors, out, outdoors, outside). (various references)

Greek 

εξωτερικόσ (exoteric, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic, outer, outside, outward), εξωτερικός (foreign, outdoor). (various references)

Hebrew 

חיצוני (ecto, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic, out, outer, outward, surface), חוצי. (various references)

Hungarian

külszíni (aboveground, aerial, overhead), külsőség (formality, shell), külsőleges (extrinsic), külső megjelenés (appearance, aspect, guise, habit, rig), külországi, külföldi (alien, alien friend, expatriate, foreign, foreigner, monitor, offshore, oversea, overseas, peregrine, stranger, to depend on foreign supplies), kül-, felületi (outward, peripheral, superficial, surface). (various references)

Indonesian

ekstern, lahiriah (extrinsic, material, physical), keadaan luas. (various references)

Italian

esterno (exterior, location, off, out, outdoor, outer, outlying, outside, outward), esterne (outer, outside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

外部 (the outside), 外的 (outside), 外在 , 外形的 (outward), 付け (bill, bill of sale, date, dated, fixed), エキス剤 (COMBINE, eccentric, ecstasy, Ecuador, ecumenism, equitable, equity, equity finance, Excalibur, Excelan, excellent, exchange, exchange order, excursion, excursion fare, excursion ticket, excuse me, executor, exercise, exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, exorcist, exotic, exoticism, exotisme, expedition, expense, expensive, expire, explorer, explosion, explosion shot, export, express, expression, expressway, extension, extent, exterior, extract, literature), 対外 (foreign). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいがい (ectogenesis, foreign, great number of people, in general, mainly, outside the body), がいざい (foreign or imported timber), がいぶ (the outside), がいけいてき (outward), がいてき (foreign enemy, outside), づけ (date, dated, fixed), エクスターナル . (various references)

Manx

mooie (abroad, exterior, extraneous, out, outboard, outdoors, outer, outstanding, outward, owing, without). (various references)

Norwegian

ytre (exterior), utvendig (exterior), utenriks. (various references)

Papiamen

eksterno (outer, outside). (various references)

Pig Latin

externalay.(various references)

Polish

zewnętrzny (outer, outside). (various references)

Portuguese

externo (foreign, non-resident, out-college, outer, outermost, outmost, outside, outward, over, oversea), exterior (abroad, exterior, ostensible, outdoor, outer, out-of-door, outside, outsider, outward, utter). (various references)

Romanian

extern (day-scholar, foreign, outer), exterior (appearance, exterior, out, outdoor, outer, outside, outward, oversea), superficial (cursory, facile, flimsy, flippant, gossamer, passing, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, slight, sublime, superficial, superficially, thin, tinsel, trivial, yeasty), formã (appearance, block, cast, condition, configuration, conformation, conventionality, cut, fashion, fig, figuration, figure, form, format, guise, likeness, make, Mold, mould, pattypan, semblance, shape, size, structure), din afarã (adventitious, from outside, from the outside, from without, out), aspect exterior (appearance, face, habit), împrejurãri exterioare. (various references)

Russian 

внешний (ecto-, exogenous, exterior, extern, extraneous, off-board, out, out of doors, outdoor, outer, out-of-door, out-of-line, outside, outward, peripherial, superficial). (various references)

Scottish

rùsg (a fleece, external covering, rind, skin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spoljašnji (exterior, extern, extrinsic, out of doors, outer, outside, outward), inostran (foreign, peregrin). (various references)

Spanish

externo (day pupil, day-boy, ext., exterior, extern, outer, outside, outward), exterior (exterior, foreign, foreign parts, out, outer, outlying, outside, outward, surface, upper, wing, winger). (various references)

Swedish

yttre (exoteric, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic, guise, out, outer, outside, outward, peripheral, person, personal, surface), utvärtes (outward, outwards), extern (day-scholar, extern). (various references)

Thai

ลักษณะภายนอก (คน, สิ่งของ), ภายนอก (exterior). (various references)

Turkish

yabancı ülkelerle olan, harici (exoteric, exterior, outer), dıştan (externally, from outside, from without, outboard, outwardly), dışarıdan gelen (extraneous), dış (ecto-, exo-, exterior, extrinsic, foreign, offshore, out, outer, outside, outward, salient, superficial, without). (various references)

Turkmen 

daюary (outside). (various references)

Ukrainian

іноземний (alien, foreign), зовнішній бік (exteriority, face, without), зовнішній (exterior, extrinsic, extrinsical, foreign, formal, out, outboard, outdoor, outer, outlying, out-of-door, outside, outward). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ở ngoài (exterior, out, outdoor, outside, outward, without). (various references)

Welsh

allanol (outer, outward). (various references)

externorum, externum, externus, extranea, extraneas, extranei, extraneis, extraneo, extraneorum, extraneos, extraneum, extraneus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "external": externalisation, externalisations, externalise, externalised, externalises, externalising, externalism, externalisms, externalities, externality, externalization, externalizations, externalize, externalized, externalizes, externalizing, externally, externals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"External" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enternal, eternall, externaly, Externe, externum. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: enteral, eternal, exalter, teleran.

-2 letters: antler, elater, entera, extern, lateen, leaner, learnt, neater, relate, relent, rental.

-3 letters: alert, alter, anele, antre, arete, artel, eaten, eater, elate, enate, enter, exalt, exert, extra, laree, laten, later, latex, laxer, leant, learn, ranee, ratel, relax, relet, renal, rente, retax, taler, taxer, telae, telex, terne, treen.

-4 letters: alee, ante.

+1 letter: externals.

+2 letters: externally, naltrexone.

+3 letters: alexandrite, excremental, externalise, externalism, externality, externalize, exuberantly, intersexual, naltrexones.

+4 letters: alexandrites, experiential, experimental, externalised, externalises, externalisms, externalized, externalizes, extraneously, extranuclear, inextricable, intertextual.

+5 letters: externalising, externalities, externalizing, intersexually.