What does interior mean?

Definitions for interior
ɪnˈtɪər i ərin·te·ri·or

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word interior.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. inside, interiornoun

    the region that is inside of something

  2. inside, interiornoun

    the inner or enclosed surface of something

  3. Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoIadjective

    the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849

  4. interioradjective

    situated within or suitable for inside a building

    "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows"

  5. home(a), interior(a), internal, nationaladjective

    inside the country

    "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"

  6. inner, interior, internaladjective

    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.

  7. interioradjective

    inside and toward a center

    "interior regions of the earth"

  8. interior, midland, upcountryadjective

    of or coming from the middle of a region or country

    "upcountry districts"

Wiktionary

  1. interiornoun

    The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

  2. interiornoun

    The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

    Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

  3. interiornoun

    The set of all interior points of a set.

  4. interioradjective

    having to do with the inner part of something

  5. interioradjective

    having to do with the inland parts of a country far from the coasts

  6. Etymology: From interior.

ChatGPT

  1. interior

    In the context of geometry and topology, the interior of a shape or a set is the set of all points that lie strictly within the boundary of that shape. This means that any point in the interior doesn't belong to the boundary itself. It typically refers to the largest open set that is entirely contained within the shape or set. In a broader, non-mathematical context, the term "interior" can refer to the inside or inner part of something, such as a building, a country (in context to its borders) or a vehicle.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Interioradjective

    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. Interioradjective

    remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country

  3. Interiornoun

    that which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside

  4. Interiornoun

    the inland part of a country, state, or kingdom

Freebase

  1. Interior

    In mathematics, specifically in topology, the interior of a set S of points of a topological space consists of all points of S that do not belong to the boundary of S. A point that is in the interior of S is an interior point of S. Equivalently the interior of S is the complement of the closure of the complement of S. In this sense interior and closure are dual notions. The exterior of a set is the interior of its complement, equivalently the complement of its closure; it consists of the points that are in neither the set nor its boundary. The interior, boundary, and exterior of a subset together partition the whole space into three blocks. The interior and exterior are always open while the boundary is always closed. Sets with empty interior have been called boundary sets.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Interior

    in-tē′ri-ur, adj. inner: remote from the frontier or coast: inland.—n. the inside of anything: the inland part of a country.—n. Interior′ity.—adv. Intē′riorly. [L.,—comp. of interus, inward.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. interior

    A word of varied application; as, the interior flanking angle is formed by the curtain and line of defense. Interior radius is that part of an oblique radius extending from the centre of the polygon to the centre of the bastion. Interior side is the line of the curtain produced to the two oblique radii of the front, or a line drawn from the centre of one bastion to that of the next.

Editors Contribution

  1. interior

    A place within.

    The interior of the house was elegant, clean, neat, tidy and structured.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'interior' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4775

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'interior' in Nouns Frequency: #1711

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'interior' in Adjectives Frequency: #829

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of interior in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of interior in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of interior in a Sentence

  1. Imran Kishwar:

    As Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal got out of a car, a young man shot Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. The assailant has been apprehended.

  2. Sylvestre Lacour:

    Our observations suggest a ball of gas illuminated from the interior, with rays of warm light swirling through stormy patches of dark clouds, convection moves around the clouds of silicate and iron particles, which disaggregate and rain down into the interior. This paints a picture of a dynamic atmosphere of a giant exoplanet at birth, undergoing complex physical and chemical processes.

  3. Hunter Waite:

    Cassini and Enceladus really allowed us to see the kind of things we could do with mass spectrometers and, more importantly, with material that's coming up straight out of the ocean, it's a way of viewing the ocean without drilling into it. We didn't necessarily have to land ; we could sit there and and sample to study quite a bit about these ocean worlds just from flying through the material that comes out of the interior. That's what the plumes are about on Europa as well. It's that connection to the interior ocean.

  4. Daisy Bates:

    From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

  5. Louise Erdrich:

    In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

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