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Nov 8, 2009
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ex•tern



Pronunciation: (ek'stûrn; for 3 also ik-stûrn'), [key]
—n.
1. a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
2. a nun of a strictly enclosed order, as the Carmelites, who resides inside the convent but outside its enclosure and who chiefly goes on outside errands.

—adj.
Archaic.external; outer.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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