Definition of Intereor
In*te"ri*or (?), a. [L., compar. fr.
inter between: cf. F. intérieur. See Inter-
, and cf. Intimate.]
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 (Geom.), an angle
formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a
polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another
intersecting them; -- called also internal angle. --
Interior planets (Astron.), those
planets within the orbit of the earth. -- Interior
screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut;
a female screw.
Syn. -- Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
In*te"ri*or, n. 1.
That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the
inside.
2. The inland part of a country, state, or
kingdom.
Department of the Interior, that department
of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions,
patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that
department of the government of a country which is specially charged
with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.
-- Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet
officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department
of the Interior.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- having to do with the inner part of something
- having to do with the inland parts of a country far from the coasts
- the inside parts of a country away from the coasts
The inland regions of Africa
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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