資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Interior \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf.
   F. int['e]rieur. See {Inter-}, and cf. {Intimate}.]
   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. 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.