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Definition of Interior

1. Noun. The region that is inside of something.

2. Adjective. Situated within or suitable for inside a building. "An interior bathroom without windows"

3. Noun. The inner or enclosed surface of something.

4. Adjective. Inside the country. "The nation's internal politics"

5. Noun. The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849.

6. Adjective. Located inward. "An internal sense of rightousness"

7. Adjective. Inside and toward a center. "Interior regions of the earth"

8. Adjective. Of or coming from the middle of a region or country. "Upcountry districts"

Definition of Interior

1. a. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

2. n. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.

Definition of Interior

1. Adjective. having to do with the inner part of something ¹

2. Adjective. having to do with the inland parts of a country far from the coasts ¹

3. Noun. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure. ¹

4. Noun. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts. ¹

5. Noun. (mathematics topology) The set of all interior points of a set. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Interior

1. the inside [n -S] - See also: inside

Medical Definition of Interior

1. 1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. Interior angle, those planets within the orbit of the earth. Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw. Synonym: Internal, inside, inner, inland, inward. Origin: L, compar. Fr. Inter between: cf. F. Interieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interior

interim order interim overhaul interims interindividual interindustry interinfluence interinfluences intering interinstitutional interinstitutional relations

interinvolve interinvolved interinvolves interinvolving interionic interior (current term) interior(a) interior angle interior angles interior decoration

interior decorator interior design interior design and furnishings interior designer interior door interior live oak interior monologue interior point interior points interiorise

Literary usage of Interior

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"They are less nomadic in character than the purer race of the interior and carry ... The Dyaks of the interior employ themselves with hunting and tillage, ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"In the course of my work I had to make various long journeys in the uninhabited interior of that country. It is of one of these journeys, which lasted from ..."

3. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"And yet from every shower that passes, water is admitted through these perforations to the interior of the timber, filling the multitude of little cells ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1857)
"Notes on the Probable Condition of the interior of Australia. By H. LANDO«. Í* you take a map of Australia, the first most striking feature Is the absence ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This marks the beginning of the occupation of the interior of ... south-west of Sydney, a large extent of the interior was reveled. Messrs Hamilton Hume and ..."

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