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outways

outways is the plural of outway.

Meaning of outway

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
  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

Questions about outways

What is outways the plural of?
Outways is the plural of outway.

Words near outways in the dictionary

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

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