Adjective
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"