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exterior

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exterior
1. Film a film or scene shot outside a studio
2. Politics of or involving foreign nations

exterior [ek′stir·ē·ər]
(mathematics)
For a setAin a topological space, the largest open set contained in the complement ofA.
For a plane figure, the set of all points that are neither on the figure nor inside it.
For an angle, the set of points that lie in the plane of the angle but not between the rays defining the angle.
For a simple closed plane curve, one of the two regions into which the curve divides the plane according to the Jordan curve theorem, namely, the region that is not bounded.


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Happily these interior problems are not infrequently resolved by quite exterior forces.
It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.
He was of the iron of which martyrs are made, but in the heart of the matrix had lurked a nobler metal, fusible at a milder heat, yet never coloring nor softening the hard exterior.
 
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