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How to pronounce external in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms international, outside


external commerce.
Type Words
Synonyms extraneous, outside
Derivation externality
Type Words
Derivation externality


the external auditory canal.
external pressures.
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Type of characteristic, feature


he enjoyed the solemn externals of religion.
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external composure.
an external concern for reputation.

Examples of external

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It did not succumb to external pressures to become bigger and supposedly better.
From the thenewstribune.com
Taking away the external expressions of the holiday did not take away their joy.
From the kentucky.com
The wheel I sampled had a hard, dry natural rind with some external mold growth.
From the sfgate.com
You can also add an external keyboard, but that ruins the tablet-design concept.
From the businessweek.com
Most of the attention on Yahoo in recent months has focused on external threats.
From the businessweek.com
Often they may recognize the importance of the external as well as the internal.
From the abcnews.go.com
The external inspection began this week and is expected to run for several days.
From the washingtonpost.com
Curry has made her teaching material public in an attempt to get external views.
From the independent.co.uk
Here, many such external causes are now under control, but not across the world.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; "the external auditory canal"; "external pressures"
  • Outward features; "he enjoyed the solemn externals of religion"
  • Coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups"
  • From or between other countries; "external commerce"; "international trade"; "developing nations need outside help"
  • Purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
  • (externally) on or from the outside; "the candidate needs to be externally evaluated"
  • In economics, an externality (or transaction spillover) is a cost or benefit, not transmitted through prices , incurred by a party who did not agree to the action causing the cost or benefit. ...
  • The term external is useful for describing certain algebraic structures. The term comes from the concept of an external binary operation which is a binary operation that draws from some external set. ...
  • The Externals were a fictional group of X-Men antagonists and subspecies of mutants.