Crossword clues for exterior
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exterior \Ex*te"ri*or\, n.
The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
Exterior \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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin exterior "outward, outer, exterior," comparative of exterus "on the outside, outward, outer, of another country, foreign," itself a comparative of ex "out of" (see ex-). As a noun, "outer surface or aspect" from 1590s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to the outside parts or surface of something. 2 Being from outside a country; foreign. 3 outdoors. alt. 1 Relating to the outside parts or surface of something. 2 Being from outside a country; foreign. 3 outdoors. n. 1 The outside part, parts or surface of something. 2 Foreign lands.
WordNet
adj. situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; "an exterior scene"; "exterior grade plywood"; "exterior paints" [ant: interior]
Wikipedia
In topology, the exterior of a subset S of a topological space X is the union of all open sets of X which are disjoint from S. It is itself an open set and is disjoint from S. The exterior of S is denoted by
ext Sor
S.Usage examples of "exterior".
If, however, meat had been placed on the glands of these same tentacles before they had begun to secrete copiously and to absorb, they undoubtedly would have affected the exterior rows.
A large number of skilled engineers had already been brought from the fleet and were busily at work adapting the exterior industrial apparatus of the place to the purposes of an aeronautic park.
The exterior of the western aisle of this transept is very curious in arrangement.
The aisle windows have ogee gables above them with finials, and immediately above them a band of panelling running right across the exterior buttresses.
If the radial disturbing force be exterior to the disturbed body, it will diminish the central force, and cause a progressive motion in the aphelion point of the orbit.
The central gatehouse was flanked by two defensive towers, both of them loopholed to sweep the exterior of the gatehouse with arquebus and light artillery fire.
The exterior aspect of the Baptistery does not give one the idea of a building restored in the thirteenth, but rather in the fifteenth century.
There I behelde a marueilous buildyng of a bathe eight square, and at euerye Exterior corner, there were doubled together twoo Pyles, in fashion of a Pyke, from the leuell of the foundation, the subiect Areobates Circumcinct and ribbed about.
What stone was used is clunch, from Tottenhoe in Bedfordshire, which, according to Lord Grimthorpe, is admirably suited for interior work, but absolutely worthless for exterior, as it decays very soon, and if it gets damp is shivered into powder by frost.
The screen is of clunch, a hard stone from the lower chalk formation quarried at Tottenhoe near Dunstable, a stone much used for interior work in the church, though it will not stand exposure to weather in exterior walls.
Colonel Doyle and Durian uncovered evidence that, for the past several years, my loving spouse kept Exterior well informed of the goings-on here.
In other words, the handyman had electrically grounded the machine the wrong way, ensuring that if he touched both the exterior metal case of the dishwasher, and something else that was metal or conductive, he would complete an electrical circuit through his own body and electrocute himself.
Although the interior had been cleaned out and repainted, the exterior was still an eyesore because portions were charred, streaked, and flaking.
Between them -- for one set is placed at the entrance to an interior, and one at that of the exterior wall -- is a fosse, forty-five feet in width.
The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art.