Meaning

3 senses
  1. The exterior; outward features or appearances.

    (usually plural)Inessential or superficial features.

    outward features

  2. (usually plural)Outward appearance.

  3. A variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.

Examples

70 sentences
  1. I have three external hard drives.

    У мене три зовнішніх жорстких диски. — deniko

  2. Save it on the external hard drive.

    ruСохрани это на внешнем жёстком диске. — astyng

    deSpeichere es auf der externen Festplatte! — Yorwba

  3. Tom backed everything up on an external hard drive.

    ruТом сохранил все данные на внешний жёсткий диск. — odexed

  4. Luckily, it's all backed up on my external hard drive.

  5. Tom accidentally deleted all the files on one of his external hard disks.

    ruТом случайно удалил все файлы на одном из своих внешних жёстких дисков. — odexed

Origin

From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/e

From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).

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Forms

plural: externals
Singularexternal
Pluralexternals

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
external — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto