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out·er  (outr)
adj.
1. Located on the outside; external.
2. Farther than another from the center or middle.
3. Relating to the body or its appearance rather than the mind or spirit.

outer
Adjective
1. on the outside; external: the building's outer walls were painted pale pink
2. further from the middle: the outer suburbs
Noun
Archery
a. the white outermost ring on a target
b. a shot that hits this ring
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.outer - being on the outside or further from a center; "spent hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs"
inner - located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room"
2.outer - located outside; "outer reality"
outward - relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections"
3.outer - being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"
anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
external - happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; "the external auditory canal"; "external pressures"

outer
adjective 1. external, outside, outward, exterior, exposed, outermost << OPPOSITE inner
Translations
Spanish outer [ˈautəʳ] adjexterior, externo
French outer [ˈautəʳ] adjextérieur(e);
outer suburbs → grande banlieue

German outer [ˈautəʳ] adjäußere(r, s);
outer suburbs → (äußere) Vorstädte pl;
the outer office → das Vorzimmer

Italian outer [ˈautəʳ] adjesteriore;
outer suburbs → estrema periferia

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Our trip through the earth's crust was but a repetition of my two former journeys between the inner and the outer worlds.
The outer wall was fifty feet in height where it had not fallen into ruin, but nowhere as far as they could see had more than ten or twenty feet of the upper courses fallen away.
The strip of dry land is only a few hundred yards in width; on the lagoon side there is a white calcareous beach, the radiation from which under this sultry climate was very oppressive; and on the outer coast, a solid broad flat of coral-rock served to break the violence of the open sea.
 
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