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Definition of Outer
1. Adjective. Being on the outside or further from a center. "The outer suburbs"
Similar to: Out, Outermost, Outmost, Outside, Satellite
Antonyms: Inner
2. Adjective. Located outside. "Outer reality"
3. Adjective. Being on or toward the outside of the body. "The outer ear"
Definition of Outer
1. a. Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
2. n. The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's- eye.
3. n. One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession.
Definition of Outer
1. Adjective. Outside; external. ¹
2. Adjective. Farther from the centre of the inside. ¹
3. Noun. An outer part. ¹
4. Noun. (wholesale trade) the smallest single unit normally sold to retailers, usually equal to one retail display box. ¹
5. Noun. Someone who admits to something publicly. ¹
6. Noun. Someone who outs another. ¹
7. Noun. One who puts out, ousts, or expels. ¹
8. Noun. An ouster; dispossession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outer
1. a part of a target [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outer
Literary usage of Outer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"The outer circuit was covered, as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment, and
long rafters lay from the 32 angles to the top ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"The ' outer sense' is only an outer sense at all so far as feelings, by themselves
neither outward nor inward, are by the mind referred to a thing or cause ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The outer process passes outward into the outer molecular layer, ... 448, 1, c,
d); the others are those in which the outer process breaks up in a ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"3) slightly longer than broad and bearing a tubercle at its outer distal angle
which is armed with a sharp strong spine. Second basal segment three fourths ..."
5. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"Different schools identify morality with either the inner state of mind or the
outer act and results, each in separation from the other. ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The outer coating EF (fig. 16) wa> divided into two hemispheres, which could be
fitted together air-tight. The lower hemisphere F was fitted to a perforated ..."
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