INTERIOR

interior. Interior, n. the inland part of a country, the inside or parts within

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In‐te″ri‐or (?), a. [[L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F. intérieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate.]] 1. 1. 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. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.
Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; — called also internal angle. — Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the earth. — Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw. Syn. — Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.