Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person associated with but not officially residing in an institution, especially a nonresident physician on a hospital staff.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young physician, or advanced medical student, who is a member of the medical staff in a hospital but attends only during the day, sleeping outside; also, one who cares for patients in the out-patient department or in their homes.
- Outward; external; visible.
- Being outside; coming from without.
- noun Outward form or part; exterior.
- noun A student or pupil who does not live or board within a college or seminary; a day-scholar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete External; outward; not inherent.
- noun A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.
- noun rare Outward form or part; exterior.
- noun same as
externe .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
- noun Outward form or part;
exterior . - adjective obsolete, rare
External .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The kernel support of shared library under Linux is system call extern int uselib (const char * __filename); which loads an executable image with fixed entry point into memory, just like the ordinary executables.
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IT is correct, the function shall have "extern" added since extern means that the function is written somewhere else however, I Invoke it here in my code.
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Justification Keyword 'extern' is used to specify external linkage.
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This is my scnerio. i have a class called student. public class student: studentbase public string name; public int age; public student (); - > i get a compilation telling "extern" key or body must be declared.
ASP.NET Forums 2009
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Question is why that would be From my turboC days I seem to remember that 'extern' was required in situations like above.
LinuxQuestions.org Wim Sturkenboom 2009
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Without the "extern" you declare your global 'myinteger' in the same file as 'myfunction', so what?
LinuxQuestions.org Wim Sturkenboom 2009
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Anirà a cÃrrec del seu President i baixista dels Quicos Kike Pellicer i compta amb el suport extern de la sala Clubzigrama dâAmposta i Sala La Dutxa de La RÃpita.
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A nursing student extern recently asked me this same question and I found myself actually struggling for an answer for her.
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A nursing student extern recently asked me this same question and I found myself actually struggling for an answer for her.
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Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age, may correct the defects of both; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity, youth.
The Essays 2007
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