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outway

outway noun: a way out; an exit or outlet.

Noun

outway (plural outways)

  1. (rare) A way out; an exit or outlet.
    • If it is not cooked for hours the inevitable result will be disordered digestion and an overheated system. The outway for trouble of that kind is through the dog's skin, and perpetual scratching […]1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Country Life, volume 11, page 544
    • So they came into the outway. / It was Sunday, what a black day.1987, Michael Jackson, “Smooth Criminal”
  2. (Internet) The path outbound from the LAN (Local Area Network) to the WAN (Wide Area Network).
    • That is, the "internal junctions" of various classical models will not be distinguished from the outways of the net; alternatively, every element outway could be a net outway.1970, B Beizer, “Towards a new theory of sequential switching networks”, in IEEE Transactions on Computers
    • A parallel multiplier could theoretically be realized as a two-level multiple-outway combinational network, but its cost would be prohibitive.1975, AR Meo, IEEE Transactions on Computers

Forms of outway

pluraloutways

Origin of outway

From out + way.

Questions about outway

What does outway mean?
Outway means a way out; an exit or outlet.
What part of speech is outway?
Outway is a noun.
What is the plural of outway?
The plural of outway is outways.

Words near outway in the dictionary

  1. outwatching
  2. outwave
  3. outwaved
  4. outwaves
  5. outwaving
  6. outway
  7. outways
  8. outweapon
  9. outweaponed
  10. outweaponing
  11. outweapons

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