happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; internal organs; internal mechanism of a toy; internal party maneuvering'

occurring within an institution or community; intragroup squabbling within the corporation

[ Syn: intragroup ]

inside the country; the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior; the nations internal politics

[ Syn: home , interior , national ]

located inward; Beethovens 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.

[ Syn: inner , interior ]

innermost or essential; the inner logic of Cubism; the internal contradictions of the theory; the intimate structure of matter

[ Syn: inner , intimate ]