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View synonyms for outermost

outermost

[ ou-ter-mohstor, especially British, -muhst ]

adjective

  1. farthest out; remotest from the interior or center:

    the outermost limits.



outermost

/ ˈaʊtəˌməʊst /

adjective

  1. furthest from the centre or middle; outmost
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of outermost1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; outer, -most
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Example Sentences

Another solution is to reduce the canopy from the top — not by topping or giving the tree a buzz cut, but by cutting back outermost branches where they meet a lower branch.

The shock wave must also fight against the inward spiral of the star’s outermost layers, which are still falling onto the core.

For centuries, the outermost layer of Earth was thought to be static, rigid, locked in place.

When atoms come together in solids, the outermost electron shells of neighbors overlap and form “bands” that extend throughout the material.

Finally, for now the electrodes can only record from the cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

The bullet peeled off the outermost layer of skin during a demonstration in Zamalka.

Reckoning that Neptune is the outermost planet of the solar system, that system would have a diameter of 5,584 millions of miles.

Of these coats he rightly supposes the outermost to be merely the epidermis of the middle membrane or testa.

The fjord below lay as smooth as a mirror, the outermost headlands and islands seeming to stand out of the water.

So also, in Troilus, v. 1809, by the seventh sphere he means the outermost sphere of Saturn.

On the outermost corner of the structure, overlooking the eddying, foaming bend of the San Juan, rose the isolated tower.

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