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interior

adj
/ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/UK/ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/US

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

  1. borrowed from interior — “inner, interior”

Definitions

  1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance

    Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

    • the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball

  2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore

    Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

    • the interior parts of a region or country

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

    • The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

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

      • Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland
      • Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

    2. The set of all interior points of a set.

    3. A town and village in South Dakota, United States.

    4. A region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Derived

interior angle, interior crest, interior decoration, interior design, interior designer, interiority, interiorization, interiorize, interiorly, interior Mexican, interior monologue, interiorness, interiorscape

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at interior. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at interior. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at interior

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA