Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of three each; threefold.

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Examples

  • Sea:/Listen .../hi (s e) ternal ... thunder — everlastingly.

    Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

  • I.ternal campus documents released this week show Giannoulias 'adviser Endy Zemenides sent information about the student to U. of I. Provost Linda Katehi in February 2008.

    Wait 20 Years. Erupt. 2009

  • But recently, Kevin I. Fromer, assistant secretary for legislative affairs, wrote in a letter to Congress that "the Treasury Department and the I.ternal Revenue Service have determined that any further change to the required minimum distribution rules should not be undertaken."

    Some Breathing Room for IRAs Anne Tergesen 2008

  • Under Stanford's current policy, students who fail a class receive an NC, for "" no credit, '' which appears only on in-ternal records, not on the students 'official transcripts.

    Give Me An A, Or Give Me Death 2008

  • (According to the 9/11 Commission Report published last month, an in-ternal agency analysis was titled "Khalid Shaykh Mohammed's Threat Reporting -- Precious Truths Surrounded by a Bodyguard of Lies.")

    Al Qaeda's 'Pre-Election' Plot 2007

  • I must shut … down to run in … ternal diagnos … tics.

    A Time to Sow Dayton Ward 2004

  • I must shut … down to run in … ternal diagnos … tics.

    A Time to Sow Dayton Ward 2004

  • I must shut … down to run in … ternal diagnos … tics.

    A Time to Sow Dayton Ward 2004

  • The economy is less dependent on ex - ternal factors such as the rand, and is more internally driven.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Mr. Bradley, maintain in-ternal temperature at the lowest tolerable level.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

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