external

English

Etymology

From Latin externus, from exter, exterus (“on the outside, outward”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

external (comparative more external, superlative most external)

1. outside of something

Antonyms

• internal

Related terms

• externalization
• externalize
• externalism
• externalist
• externality

Translations

outside of something

• Armenian: արտաքին (hy) (artak’in)
• Bulgarian: външен (bg) (vǎnšen)
• Catalan: extern (ca) m, externa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外部的 (cmn) (wàibù de)

• Czech: externí (cs), vnější (cs)
• Dutch: uiterlijk (nl), uitwendig (nl)
• Finnish: ulko- (fi), ulkoinen (fi), ulkonainen (fi), ulkopuolinen (fi)
• French: externe (fr)
• German: Außen- (de), extern (de)
• Greek: εξωτερικός (el) (exoterikós)
• Ido: extera

• Japanese: 外側の (ja) (そとがわの, sotogawa no), 外部の (ja) (がいぶの, gaibu no)
• Persian: بیرونی (fa) (birōni), بیگانه (fa) (bigâna or bigâne)
• Polish: zewnętrzny (pl)
• Portuguese: externo (pt)
• Romanian: extern (ro)
• Russian: внешний (ru) (vnéšnij), наружный (ru) (narúžnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: èkstērnī (sh), ìzvanjskī (sh), vànjskī (sh)
• Spanish: externo (es) m
• Swedish: extern (sv)
• Telugu: బహిర్గత (bahirgata)

External links

• external in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• external in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• external at OneLook Dictionary Search