Word of the Day:
internal
What It Means
Of or situated on the inside.
Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
We saw the internal compartments of the machine.
Did You Know?
From Middle English internall, internalle, borrowing from New Latin internālis (“of or pertaining to the inner part”), from internus (“inward, internal”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, intern + -al.
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