In OLE Automation, an identifier that a class exposes to other applications. Automation clients use the external name to request an object of this class from an automation server. In C/C++, an identifier declared with global scope or declared using the extern storage class.
The name of an object referenced by a program unit, as it appears to the linker. Case is not significant in the names that appear in Fortran source files; but it is significant in external names.
a name of a subroutine, function, block data subprogram, or labeled common
a string value for the name used by a foreign language program either for an entity that an Ada program imports, or for referring to an entity that an Ada program exports
a concrete name whose association to Abstract Identifiers is maintained by the FDL; "external" emphasizes the contrast with abstract identifiers which are "internal" to an FDL
The name of a common block, subroutine, or other global procedure, which the linker uses to resolve references from one compilation unit to another.
(1.) A name that can be referred to by any control section or separately assembled or compiled module; a control section name or an entry name in another module. (2.) In a program, a name whose scope is not necessarily confined to one block and its contained blocks.