Crossword clues for intrinsic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intrinsic \In*trin"sic\, n.
A genuine quality. [Obs.]
--Warburton.
Intrinsic \In*trin"sic\ ([i^]n*tr[i^]n"s[i^]k), a. [L. intrinsecus inward, on the inside; intra within + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. intrins[`e]que. See Inter-, Second, and cf. Extrinsic.]
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Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person.
He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement.
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(Anat.) Included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic.
Intrinsic energy of a body (Physics), the work it can do in virtue of its actual condition, without any supply of energy from without.
Intrinsic equation of a curve (Geom.), the equation which expresses the relation which the length of a curve, measured from a given point of it, to a movable point, has to the angle which the tangent to the curve at the movable point makes with a fixed line.
Intrinsic value. See the Note under Value, n.
Syn: Inherent; innate; natural; real; genuine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "interior, inward, internal," from Middle French intrinsèque "inner" (13c.), from Medieval Latin intrinsecus "interior, internal," from Latin intrinsecus (adv.) "inwardly, on the inside," from intra "within" (see intra-) + secus "alongside," originally "following" (related to sequi "to follow;" see sequel). Meaning "belonging to the nature of a thing" is from 1640s. Related: Intrinsicly.
Wiktionary
a. 1 innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential. 2 (context of a body part, relating to anatomy English) Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member. n. 1 (cx computing programming English) A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library. 2 (cx video games English) An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.
WordNet
adj. belonging to a thing by its very nature; "form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing"- John Dewey [syn: intrinsical] [ant: extrinsic]
situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts; "intrinsic muscles"
Wikipedia
Intrinsic is the second studio album by progressive metal band The Contortionist, released through E1/ Good Fight Music on July 17, 2012.
Usage examples of "intrinsic".
There is an intrinsic plausibility to this theory: if two neurons A and B have inputs to C, and if the activation of C is stronger when its inputs come in repeatedly at almost exactly the same time, then neuron C will be more strongly activated if its inputs A and B are synchronous.
There were old Persian and Bokharan rugs and Worcester teaservices of glowing colour, and little treasures of antique silver that each enshrined a history or a memory in addition to its own intrinsic value.
If one studies the intrinsic resonance of the coaxially based spherical cavity caused by the boundaries of the ionosphere and the surface of the planet, one finds that it matches certain properties of brain waves!
Congress is to be necessarily tested by the intrinsic existence of commerce in the particular subject dealt with, instead of by the relation of that subject to commerce and its effect upon it.
But this equality does not mean that one exchanges utility for utility in identical portions: one exchanges inequalities, which means that on both sides - and despite the fact that each element traded has an intrinsic utility - more value is acquired than was originally possessed.
We only need to make it conscious, to live our lives as co-workers within the intrinsic, natural law or patterns of the Creator.
That gleam, I remember, and that intrinsic significance were the properties of a solitary oak that could be seen from the train, between Reading and Oxford, growing from the summit of a little knoll in a wide expanse of ploughland, and silhouetted against the pale northern sky.
The standard of reckoning was the livre tournois, which varied Intrinsically in value of the silver put into it as follows: Years Intrinsic value of silver 1500 .
These silhouetted shapes possess the visionary quality of intrinsic significance, heightened by isolation and unrelatedness to praeternatural intensity.
These silhouetted shapes possess the visionary quality of intrinsic significance, heightened by isolation and unrelatedness to preternatural intensity.
Perhaps, if they had recognized and studied the constitution which preceded that drawn up by the Convention of 1787, and which is intrinsic, inherent in the republic itself, they would have seen that it solves the problem, and asserts national unity without consolidation, and the rights of the several States without danger of disintegration.
Beyond the intrinsic aesthetic appeal of this egalitarian treatment of all motion, we have seen that these symmetry principles played a pivotal role in the stunning conclusions regarding gravity that Einstein found.
Was it something intrinsic to males, that made them sensitive to cues of wind and wave?
It was the intrinsic fascination of the text that caught me, its somber beauty, its ominous embellishments, its gonglike rhythms, rather than any immediate connection with that Arizona monastery.
He had knowledge, and ambition like a floodtide, and yet he did not have the intrinsic understanding that Thick did.