Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Most distant from the center or inside; outmost.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being on the extreme external part; remotest from the midst; most distant of a series: as, the outermost row.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Superlative form ofouter . - adjective Farthest
outside ; asfar from thecenter orinside as possible.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective situated at the farthest possible point from a center
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everyone is more or less of a fish than the capybara, defined as the outermost realm of fishdom by the 16th-century Catholic Church.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Everyone is more or less of a fish than the capybara, defined as the outermost realm of fishdom by the 16th-century Catholic Church.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Everyone is more or less of a fish than the capybara, defined as the outermost realm of fishdom by the 16th-century Catholic Church.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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The innermost planet is most probably rocky, while the outermost is the first Neptune-mass planet to reside in the habitable zone.
May 17th, 2006 2006
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On the point of the outermost is a crucifix, and between both, towards the middle, are figures of the Virgin
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various
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The outermost is the merely material body, of which we are so directly cognizant.
The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885
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The distance from the centre of Jupiter to the orbit of the innermost of these four attendants is a quarter of a million miles, while the radius of the outermost is a little more than a million miles.
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This Harbour is situated one Mile to the Westward of _Brewer's Hole_, before which are two Islands, one without the other; the outermost, which is the largest is of a tolerable Height, and lies in a Line with the Coast, and is not easy to be distinguished from the Main in sailing along the Shore.
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Innermost in these are the most simple things, which are the most perfect; the outermost is a composite of these.
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Remarkably, the argument of the outermost is a repetitive appends operation and it has only linear complexity with P1 reverse () operations, but each of them is of linear complexity, so the total complexity of implementing my: prepend-iter () we have demonstrated is a simplified case of the many different real world scenarios we may encounter that will require repetitive prepends.
Planet XML Dimitre Novatchev 2010
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