different between extern vs extein

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.?st??(?)n/

Etymology 1

French externe, from Latin externus.

Noun

extern (plural externs)

1. A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
   1. A day-scholar.
2. Outward form or part; exterior.

Adjective

extern

1. (obsolete, rare) External; outward; not inherent

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “extern”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• William Shakespeare (1603) The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice, Penguin Books, published 2001

Etymology 2

Short for external; used as a keyword in these programming languages.

Noun

extern (plural externs)

1. (programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
   • 1995, Martin L. Rinehart, Learn C++ Today! (page 552)

     Finally, get rid of the two function declarations and two externs that we added at the top of TEFIL.CPP so that we could support file_open().

   • 2018, Brian Beuken, The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming

     This is probably the big thing with C++, the more you can avoid global concepts and nasty externs the better, an object/class should be totally self-contained.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin externus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ks?t??n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ks?t?rn/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /eks?t??n/

Adjective

extern (feminine externa, masculine plural externs, feminine plural externes)

1. external

   Antonym: intern

2. inessential

   Synonym: inessencial

   Antonyms: intern, essencial

3. (education) off-campus (pertaining to a student who is at a school only during classes)

   Antonym: intern

4. (geology) Pertaining to foreland, the zone where material eroded from a mountain chain is deposited.

Derived terms

• externament

Hyponyms

• (external): aliè (“external to a social group”)

See also

• avantpaís (“foreland”)

Noun

extern m (plural externs, feminine externa)

1. (education) off-campus student

   Antonym: intern

Further reading

• “extern” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “extern” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “extern” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “extern” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rn

Adjective

extern (not comparable)

1. external
2. exterior

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

extern (not comparable)

1. external

Declension

Further reading

• “extern” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French externe, from Latin externus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eks?tern]

Adjective

extern m or n (feminine singular extern?, masculine plural externi, feminine and neuter plural externe)

1. external

   Antonym: intern

Declension

Further reading

• extern in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Adjective

extern

1. external

Declension

English

Noun

extein (plural exteins)

1. (biochemistry) The product formed by the excision of an intein from a protein

Anagrams

• Xenite, extine