built-in vs intrinsic

built-in

adj
  • Being an essential and permanent part of something. 

  • Being an included feature that normally comes as an extra. 

  • Constructed as a non-detachable part of a larger structure. 

noun
  • Anything (such as a piece of furniture, or a software feature) that is built in, not added as an extra. 

intrinsic

adj
  • Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential. 

  • Built-in. 

  • Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member. 

noun
  • A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library. 

  • An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment. 

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