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What does extrinsic mean?

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Adjective
  1. external; separable from the thing itself; inessential
  2. not belonging to something; outside
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It is unconditionally envisaged as homogeneous extension, extrinsic to the distributions which occupy it.
The extrinsic muscles of the larynx control the degree of tension on the vocal cords, and the intrinsic muscles regulate the glottis.
This study therefore explores factors that are both extrinsic and intrinsic to news organization election coverage.
Because of its observational nature, our study cannot differentiate between intrinsic or extrinsic factors in the reduced reproductive success.
To account for this consistency through transpositional evolutionary changes, both intrinsic and extrinsic factors can be evoked.
In the original conception of this study, motivators were dichotomized into intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

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