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in⋅te⋅ri⋅or

[in-teer-ee-er]

–adjective

1.	being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.

2.	of or pertaining to that which is within; inside: an interior view.

3.	situated well inland from the coast or border: the interior towns of a country.

4.	of or pertaining to the inland.

5.	domestic: interior trade.

6.	private or hidden; inner: interior negotiations of the council.

7.	pertaining to the mind or soul; mental or spiritual: the interior life.

–noun

8.	the internal or inner part; inside.

Architecture.

a.	the inside part of a building, considered as a whole from the point of view of artistic design or general effect, convenience, etc.

b.	a single room or apartment so considered.

10.	a pictorial representation of the inside of a room.

11.	the inland parts of a region, country, etc.: the Alaskan interior.

12.	the domestic affairs of a country as distinguished from its foreign affairs: the Department of the Interior.

13.	the inner or inward nature or character of anything.

14.	Mathematics. the largest open set contained in a given set, as the points in a circle not including the boundary.

Origin:
1480–90; < L, comp. adj. equiv. to inter- inward + -ior comp. suffix; see exterior

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Language Translation for : interior

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Japanese:

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in·te·ri·or (ĭn-tîr'ē-ər) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of, relating to, or located on the inside; inner.
Of or relating to one's mental or spiritual being: "She thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it" (David Denby).
Situated away from a coast or border; inland.

The internal portion or area.
One's mental or spiritual life.
The inland part of a political or geographic entity.
The internal affairs of a country or nation.
A representation of the inside of a building or room, as in a photograph.

[Ultimately Latin, comparative adj. of inter, between; see en in Indo-European roots.]

in·te'ri·or'i·ty (-ôr'ĭ-tē, -ŏr'-) n., in·te'ri·or·ly adv.

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interior

1490, from L. interior "inner," comparative adj. of inter "within" (superl. intimus). The noun meaning "part of a country distant from the coast" is from 1796; meaning "inside of a building or room" is from 1829. Interior decoration first attested 1807. Meaning "internal affairs of a country or state" (as in Department of the Interior) is from 1838.

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interior
adjective
1.	situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" [ant: exterior]
2.	inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home]
3.	located inward; "Beethoven's 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]
4.	inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"
5.	of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts"
noun
1.	the region that is inside of something [syn: inside] [ant: exterior]
2.	the inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: inside] [ant: exterior]
3.	the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849 [syn: Department of the Interior]

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Interior, SD (town, FIPS 31620) Location: 43.72745 N, 101.98343 W
Population (1990): 67 (40 housing units)
Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57750

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Interior

En"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entered; p. pr. & vb. n. Entering.] [OE. entren, enteren, F. entrer, fr. L. intrare, fr. intro inward, contr. fr. intero (sc. loco), fr. inter in between, between. See Inter-, In, and cf. Interior.]

1. To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.

That darksome cave they enter. --Spenser.

I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. --Milton.

2. To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.

3. To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.

4. To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.

5. To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

6. To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

7. (Law) (a) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them. (b) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment. --Burrill.

8. To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4.

9. To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf pre["e]mption. [U.S.] --Abbott.

10. To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

11. To initiate; to introduce favorably. [Obs.] --Shak.

Interior

Ex*te"ri*or\, a. [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. ext['e]rieur. See Ex?, and cf. Extreme, Interior.]

1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.

Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. --Shak.

2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.

Without exterior help sustained. --Milton.

3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.

Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside.

Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. --Wilhelm.

Note: See Illust. of Ravelin.