Extern vs External - What's the difference?
extern | external |
A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
Outward form or part; exterior.
(obsolete, rare) External; outward; not inherent.
Outside of something; on the exterior.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
* Trench
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
As adjectives the difference between extern and external
is that extern is external; outward; not inherent while external is outside of something; on the exterior.As a noun extern
is a person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.extern
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- "Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,/ But seeming so, for my particular end,/For when my outward action doth demonstrate/The native act and figure of my heart/In complement extern, 'tis not long after/But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve/For daws to peck at." (Othello, Act 1, Scene 1)
References
* * William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice, Penguin Books, 2001 ----external
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This building has some external pipework.
- Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
- Her virtues graced with external gifts.
- The external circumstances are greatly different.
- external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom