intrinsic

• intrinsick (obsolete)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.ˈtɹɪn.zɪk/

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intrinsic (comparative more intrinsic, superlative most intrinsic)

1. 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, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement.

2. (anatomy, of a body part) Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.
3. (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.

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intrinsic (plural intrinsics)

1. (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.

2. (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.

• “intrinsic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “intrinsic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Intrinsic and extrinsic properties on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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