Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person associated with but not officially residing in an institution, especially a nonresident physician on a hospital staff.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Outward; external; visible.
  • Being outside; coming from without.
  • noun Outward form or part; exterior.
  • noun A student or pupil who does not live or board within a college or seminary; a day-scholar.
  • noun A young physician, or advanced medical student, who is a member of the medical staff in a hospital but attends only during the day, sleeping outside; also, one who cares for patients in the out-patient department or in their homes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete External; outward; not inherent.
  • noun A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.
  • noun rare Outward form or part; exterior.
  • noun same as externe.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
  • noun Outward form or part; exterior.
  • adjective obsolete, rare External.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin externus, external; see external.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin externus.

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  • IT is correct, the function shall have "extern" added since extern means that the function is written somewhere else however, I Invoke it here in my code.

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  • Justification Keyword 'extern' is used to specify external linkage.

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  • This is my scnerio. i have a class called student. public class student: studentbase public string name; public int age; public student (); - > i get a compilation telling "extern" key or body must be declared.

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  • Question is why that would be From my turboC days I seem to remember that 'extern' was required in situations like above.

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  • Without the "extern" you declare your global 'myinteger' in the same file as 'myfunction', so what?

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  • Anirà a cÃrrec del seu President i baixista dels Quicos Kike Pellicer i compta amb el suport extern de la sala Clubzigrama d’Amposta i Sala La Dutxa de La RÃpita.

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  • A nursing student extern recently asked me this same question and I found myself actually struggling for an answer for her.

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  • A nursing student extern recently asked me this same question and I found myself actually struggling for an answer for her.

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  • Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age, may correct the defects of both; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity, youth.

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  • Sister Michael . . . was an "extern." There were six externs at the convent, negotiating with the outside world on behalf of the "interns"—the ones who never left, who spent their days, day after day, until they died, in prayer and contemplation.
    Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 224.

    May 30, 2016