Extrinsic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Extrinsic \Ex*trin"sic\, a. [L. extrinsecus; exter on the
     outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F.
     extrins[`e]que. See {Exterior}, {Second}.]
     1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external;
        outward; unessential; -- opposed to {intrinsic}.
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              The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial
              culture.                              --I. Taylor.
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     2. (Anat.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to
        some other part; -- said of certain groups of muscles.
        Opposed to {intrinsic}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  extrinsic
       adj : not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or
             originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an
             extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is
             something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for
             extrinsic aid" [ant: {intrinsic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "extrinsic":
     acquired, adrift, alien, apparent, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
     beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question,
     conventionalized, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exotic,
     exterior, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extraterrestrial,
     foreign, foreign-born, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary,
     fringe, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, inadmissible,
     inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent,
     intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, legalistic, nihil ad rem,
     nominal, nonessential, nonsubjective, not at issue, objective,
     off the subject, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost,
     outland, outlandish, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding,
     outward, outward-facing, parenthetical, pedantic, peripheral,
     public, roundabout, seeming, strange, stylized, superficial,
     surface, ulterior, unearthly, unessential, unrelated