Adjective

(en adjective)

Outside of something; on the exterior.

This building has some external pipework.

* Milton

Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.

* Shakespeare

Her virtues graced with external gifts.

Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.

* Trench

The external circumstances are greatly different.

Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.

external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom

(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or having to do with more than one nation.

Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations.

Of or concerning the association called the International.

Independent of national boundaries; common to all people.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.}}

Foreign; of another nation.