Intrinsically

Intrinsic ( Latin intrinsecus "inward" or "inward") originally means "inwardly" or "turned inwardly", in a later reinterpretation also "coming from within". Intrinsic properties belong to the object itself and make it what it is. The opposite term is extrinsic .

Examples

• Intrinsic actions (also called autotelic ) serve no external purpose. See also intrinsic motivation .
• Intrinsic asthma is not caused by allergens .
• Intrinsic perception is caused in the sense organ itself; about vitreous opacities (floaters, floaters ) caused by protein deposits in the vitreous of the eye.
• Intrinsic camera parameters describe internal properties of the camera such as distortion , vignetting and chromatic aberration .
• Intrinsic descriptions of geometric objects in differential geometry are those that can be defined without recourse to an embedding space.

See also

• Intrinsic activity (pharmacodynamics)
• Intrinsic valuation method (economics)
• Intrinsic function (programming)
• Intrinsic charge carrier concentration (physics)
• Intrinsic conductivity (physics)

Web links

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