outboard
Speech parts
1. outboard - Noun
2. outboard - Adjective
Meaning
Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
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the outboard section of a wing
outboard rigging
“A lot of the other studios around were still on tape machines, and had invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in outboard gear.
Although they descended whitewater manually the team used outboard motors for much of their journey.
Aircrew Manual pt. 1, ch. 7, para 70. There were originally four lower airbrakes but the outboard two were deleted before the aircraft entered service.
Blackbird diaries, Air & Space, December 2014/January 2015, p. 46. Shape and threat avoidance Water vapor is condensed by the low-pressure vortices generated by the chines outboard of each engine inlet.