outer
IPA: ˈaʊtɝ
noun
- An outer part.
- (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- Someone who outs another.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
- An ouster; dispossession.
- (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.
adjective
- Outside; external.
- Farther from the centre of the inside.
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Examples of "outer" in Sentences
- If a subjective intuition is directly caused by an “outer” object, Bolzano calls it an ˜outer intuition™.
- The guitar on the songs is what he calls his outer life; his inner life is the philosophy informing them.
- "But I have never seen what you call the outer world," she answered, with a touch of melancholy in her voice.
- In the charged black hole, what we call the outer event horizon (r+ on the diagram) is the point of no return.
- Shannon Reeves '(age 11) submission for this month's SciFi Fairy Tales art contest puts Rapunzel in outer space.
- He was a prisoner in fairyland, and what he called his outer and his inner world were, after all, but different ways of looking at one and the same thing.
- Most of these riots took place in what we call the outer city ghettos, which are the suburbs that have been built for these people who came in after the Second World War when their parents and grandparents were invited in by France to help with the economy.
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