Associations to the word «Outer»

Wiktionary

OUTER, adjective. Outside; external.
OUTER, adjective. Farther from the centre of the inside.
OUTER, noun. An outer part.
OUTER, noun. The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bullseye.
OUTER, noun. A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
OUTER, noun. (wholesale trade) the smallest single unit normally sold to retailers, usually equal to one retail display box.
OUTER, noun. Someone who admits to something publicly.
OUTER, noun. Someone who outs another.
OUTER, noun. One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
OUTER, noun. An ouster; dispossession.
OUTER BANKER, noun. A native or resident of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
OUTER BANKS, proper noun. A long string of narrow barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina.
OUTER CLASS, noun. (programming) (object-oriented) A class that includes an inner class; for the inner class, this class appears to be the outer class.
OUTER CLASSES, noun. Plural of outer class
OUTER CORE, noun. Used other than as an idiom: see outer,‎ core.
OUTER CORE, noun. (planetology) The hot liquid material found near the centre of some planets, distinct from the solid inner core.
OUTER CORE, noun. (geology) The part of the Earth between the mantle and inner core, responsible for generating the planet's magnetic field.
OUTER EAR, noun. (anatomy) The outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum.
OUTER EARS, noun. Plural of outer ear
OUTER GARMENT, noun. An item of clothing normally worn out of doors as the outermost layer of clothing.
OUTER HEBRIDES, proper noun. An archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland, separated from the Inner Hebrides by the Little Minch.
OUTER MANCHURIA, proper noun. The portion of Manchuria falling outside of Northeast China, that was lost from China by the Qing Dynasty to the Russian Empire
OUTER MONGOLIA, proper noun. An East Asian region, south of Siberia, west of Manchuria and north of Inner Mongolia (with closely related native Mongolian population), well north of the Great Wall, which never became an integral part of the Chinese empire, and later achieved autonomy and full independence of China, as the republic of Mongolia
OUTER PLANET, noun. (astronomy) Any planet of the Solar System whose orbit is located beyond the asteroid belt, i.e., any of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune.
OUTER PLANETS, noun. Plural of outer planet
OUTER PRODUCT, noun. (math) (linear algebra) The tensor product of two vector.
OUTER PRODUCTS, noun. Plural of outer product
OUTER REGULAR, adjective. (analysis) (of a Borel set) That its measure is equal to the infimum of the measures of all open sets which contain it.
OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM, proper noun. The area of the Solar System that comprises certain objects that are relatively far from the Sun, including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, while not including the other planets.
OUTER SPACE, noun. Region outside explored space.
OUTER SPACE, noun. Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere
OUTER SPACE, noun. A bluish shade of black
OUTER TIBET, proper noun. (dated) the area of high ethnic Tibetan populations that is roughly equivalent to the Tibetan Autonomous Region

Dictionary definition

OUTER, adjective. Being on the outside or further from a center; "spent hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs".
OUTER, adjective. Located outside; "outer reality".
OUTER, adjective. Being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear".

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