internal

英[ɪn'tɜːn(ə)l] 美[ɪn'tɝnl]

1. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface;

"internal organs"

"internal mechanism of a toy"

"internal party maneuvering"

2. occurring within an institution or community;

"intragroup squabbling within the corporation"

3. inside the country;

"the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"

"the nation's internal politics"

4. located inward;

"Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein

"she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby

"an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.

5. innermost or essential;

"the inner logic of Cubism"

"the internal contradictions of the theory"

"the intimate structure of matter"