| interior | 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. <medicine> 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) |
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| interior design and furnishings | The planning of the furnishings and decorations of an architectural interior. (12 Dec 1998) |