outboardadj.adv.n.

1928 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft vii. 267 The parasitic resistance..can be greatly reduced by properly streamlining the engine supports, especially those of the outboard engines as properly housing the engine mounted in the fuselage offers no particular difficulty.

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 365/1 Outboard. Of aircraft components: Out toward an airfoil tip; away from the fuselage or hull... Outboard engine, on an airplane having four or more engines, an engine farthest from the fuselage or hull.

1991 D. R. Koontz Cold Fire i. iv. 158 The inboard ailerons on the wings were dead. The outboard ailerons were dead.

1973 IBM Techn. Disclosure Bull. 16 1203 [The programmable storage control unit] is..an instance of ‘outboard intelligence’; i.e., a programmable hardware component that is exterior to the CPU.

1986 Making Music Apr. 37/1 He remixed the four track tape through the outboard gear in a 16-track studio.

1996 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. c7/4 If you use it with an outboard keyboard and mouse, the mated unit becomes an awkward appendage in a hydra-like tangle of cables.

2002 Sound & Vision May 55/2 You'll only hear whatever bass the disc's producer put in the ‘subwoofer’ channel—unless..you use an outboard bass-management box.

1976 Nucl. Engin. & Design 39 134 In devising the shield design for a small radius EPR [= experimental power reactor], one must be aware that the inboard and outboard shield regions pose quite different problems. The inboard region is defined as that portion of the reactor between the plasma and the poloidal axis, while the outboard region is taken as that space above, below and radially outward from the plasma chamber.

1989 Fusion Engin. & Design 11 305/2 The TF [= toroidal field] coils form a continuous structure in the inboard side of the torus, and then branch into discrete coils in the outboard side.

1996 Physics of Plasmas 3 3710/2 The temporal behavior of the fluctuations through the transition shows that the transition occurs first on the outboard side and is convected inside by the poloidal flow.

2003 Jrnl. Nuclear Materials 313–6 364 In the Tore-Supra outboard pump limiter, the in situ chemical sputtering yield of the carbon neutralizer plate has been studied.

1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Comedies 55 (note) A strap by which the oar was fastened to the rowlock to prevent its slipping out-board.

1848 J. F. Cooper Capt. Spike (Flügel) A window which opened in-board, or toward the deck, and not out-board, or toward the sea.

1909 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 1/5 The starboard boat davits were swung outboard.

1995 Yachting World (BNC) Feb. 32 The chart table is almost full size and faces outboard.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xv. 279 The length outboard is 8 feet 6 inches, and that inboard about 3 feet.

1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) 640 The oar or scull..is always a little heavier outboard than inboard.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 154 Which end of the shackle is outboard?

1974 H. Gruppe Truxton Cipher xvi. 170 The platform from which the package was deposited in the water was outboard of the ship.

1935 A. J. S. Pippard & J. L. Pritchard Aeroplane Struct. (ed. 2) xii. 238 A bob weight..should be placed as far outboard of any wing support as possible.

1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 110 She found being deftly pinned outboard of one breast this big cerise..badge.

1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 61 The needle slips without pain into the vein just outboard of the hollow in the crook of his elbow.

1986 N.Y. Post 9 July 9 The route would follow..‘outboard’ along the West Street roadbed.

1994 Fine Homebuilding Nov. 34/1 The long handle made it easy to straighten the outboard ends of the 3 × 8 rafters.

1935 Discovery Aug. 225/1 There are four outboards, with a speed of twenty-five knots.

1943 J. W. Day Farming Adventure iii. 41 In peace-time you would find..the creek noisy with outboards.

1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xxi. 214 There's a man looking after the outboard I came in.

1977 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 19/7 The water was like glass as the Royal barge came in, chased by..outboards.

1989 Sea Breezes Feb. 88/1 Most travel, if not by foot, appeared to be by super high-speed outboards operating on cheap domestic fuel along a complex network of navigable waterways.