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English
Etymology
From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
intrinsic (comparative more intrinsic, superlative most intrinsic)
- Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.
- Synonyms: essential, inherent, innate, proper to; see also Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:innate
- Antonym: extrinsic
the intrinsic value of gold or silver
the intrinsic merit of an action
1832, , Saturday Evening. , London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement.
- (anatomy, of a body part) Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.
- (programming, of a function or operator) Built-in.
1997, Jeanne C. Adams, Walter S. Brainerd, Jeanne T. Martin, Brian T. Smith, Jerrold L. Wagener, Fortran 95 Handbook: Complete ISO/ANSI Reference, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 192:In addition to the Fortran operators that are intrinsic (built in), there may be user-defined operators in expressions.
Derived terms
Translations
inherent
- Bulgarian: присъщ (bg) (prisǎšt), свойствен (bg) (svojstven)
- Catalan: intrínsec
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 本質的, 本质的 / 本质 (zh) (běnzhì de)
- Danish: indre, egentlig, iboende
- Dutch: intrinsiek (nl)
- Estonian: sisemine
- Finnish: olennainen (fi), luontainen (fi), erottamaton (fi)
- French: intrinsèque (fr), inhérent (fr), immanent (fr)
- Galician: intrínseco
- German: intrinsisch (de), in sich, an sich (de), von sich
- Greek: εγγενής (el) (engenís)
- Italian: intrinseco (it)
- Korean: 본질적인 (bonjiljeogin)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: iboende (no), indre (no)
- Nynorsk: ibuande
- Occitan: intrinsec (oc)
- Polish: wewnętrzny (pl), rzeczywisty (pl)
- Portuguese: intrínseco (pt)
- Romanian: intrinsec (ro)
- Russian: прису́щий (ru) (prisúščij), свойственный (ru) (svojstvennyj), имманентный (ru) (immanentnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: интринзичан, сво̀јствен,, прирођен, у̀рођен
- Roman: intrìnzičan, svòjstven (sh), prìrođen (sh), ùrođen (sh)
- Spanish: intrínseco (es)
- Swedish: inneboende (sv)
- Thai: ในตัว (nai-dtuua), จากภายใน (jàak paai-nai)
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situated or produced inside an organ
Noun
intrinsic (plural intrinsics)
- (computing, programming) A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.
- SIMD intrinics
2021, Robert Robey, Yuliana Zamora, Parallel and High Performance Computing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 190:Crappy loops, we got them: Use vector intrinsics¶ For troublesome loops that just don't vectorize even with hints, vector intrinsics are another option.
- (video games) An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.
You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.
Further reading
- “intrinsic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “intrinsic”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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