EXTERNALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does externally mean? 

• EXTERNALLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXTERNALLY has 2 senses:

1. on or from the outside

2. with respect to the outside

  Familiarity information: EXTERNALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTERNALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On or from the outside

Context example:

the candidate needs to be externally evaluated

Antonym:

internally (on or from the inside)

Pertainym:

external (happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With respect to the outside

Synonyms:

externally; outwardly

Context example:

outwardly, the figure is smooth

 Context examples 

Delivery rate may be externally controlled or osmotically or peristaltically controlled with the aid of transcutaneous monitoring.

(Implantable pump, NCI Thesaurus)

Neptune will be in hard angle to the full moon, and it will fall in your eighth house of externally sourced money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The measurement of the magnetic fields produced by electrical activity in the brain, usually conducted externally, using extremely sensitive devices.

(Magnetoencephalography, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent has been used internally or externally for sunburn, skin problems, insect bites, ulcers, arthritis, constipation, and as an immune system enhancer.

(Aloe Vera Gel, NCI Thesaurus)

I wish, Jane, I were a trifle better adapted to match with her externally.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Issue associated with problems relating to a system, component, file, procedure, or person available to replace or help restore a primary item in the event of a failure or externally caused disaster.

(Data Back-Up Problem Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

Although all materials should demonstrate this behaviour, the efficiency of this process is typically small and cannot be controlled externally.

(Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications, University of Cambridge)

If I am reserved to wear a wig, I am at least prepared, externally, in allusion to his baldness, for that distinction.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Earth's derives the vast majority of its heat externally from solar radiation, courtesy of our Sun.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

Growing outward; developing externally.

(Exophytic, NCI Thesaurus)