Usually means: Specifier for linkage in C/C++.
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  1. extern: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extern: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extern: Vocabulary.com
  6. extern: Wordnik
  7. extern: Wiktionary
  8. extern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. extern: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. extern: Dictionary.com
  11. Extern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Extern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. extern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. extern: Rhymezone
  15. Extern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. extern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. extern: Free Dictionary
  18. extern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. extern: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extern: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. extern: Medical dictionary

(Note: See externing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (extern)

noun:  A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
noun:  A day-scholar.
noun:  Outward form or part; exterior.
adjective:  (obsolete, rare) External; outward; not inherent
noun:  (programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.

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