extern
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈɛkˌstɜː(ɹ)n/
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Middle French externe or its etymon Latin externus.
==== Noun ====
extern (plural externs)
A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
A day-scholar.
Outward form or part; exterior.
==== Adjective ====
extern
(obsolete, rare) External; outward; not inherent
==== Derived terms ====
==== References ====
John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “extern”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
William Shakespeare (1603), The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice, Penguin Books, published 2001
=== Etymology 2 ===
Short for external; used as a keyword in these programming languages.
==== Noun ====
extern (plural externs)
(programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
== Catalan ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin externus.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əksˈtɛrn]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [eksˈtɛɾn]
=== Adjective ===
extern (feminine externa, masculine plural externs, feminine plural externes)
external
Antonym: intern
inessential
Synonym: inessencial
Antonyms: intern, essencial
(education) off-campus (pertaining to a student who is at a school only during classes)
Antonym: intern
(geology) Pertaining to foreland, the zone where material eroded from a mountain chain is deposited
==== Hyponyms ====
(external): aliè (“external to a social group”)
==== Derived terms ====
externament
==== See also ====
avantpaís (“foreland”)
=== Noun ===
extern m (plural externs, feminine externa, feminine plural externes)
(education) off-campus student
Antonym: intern
=== Further reading ===
“extern”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
“extern”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
“extern” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“extern” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
== Dutch ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French externe, from Latin externus.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ɛksˈtɛrn/
Hyphenation: ex‧tern
Rhymes: -ɛrn
=== Adjective ===
extern (not comparable)
external
Synonym: uitwendig
exterior
==== Declension ====
== German ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin externus.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ɛksˈtɛʁn/
Rhymes: -ɛʁn
Hyphenation: ex‧tern
=== Adjective ===
extern (strong nominative masculine singular externer, not comparable)
external
==== Declension ====
==== Antonyms ====
intern
=== Further reading ===
“extern” in Duden online
“extern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
== Romanian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French externe, from Latin externus.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [eksˈtern]
=== Adjective ===
extern m or n (feminine singular externă, masculine plural externi, feminine/neuter plural externe)
external
Antonym: intern
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“extern”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
== Swedish ==
=== Adjective ===
extern
external
Antonym: intern
==== Declension ====
=== References ===
extern in Svensk ordbok (SO)
extern in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
extern in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)