OUTERMOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outermost mean? 

• OUTERMOST (adjective)
  The adjective OUTERMOST has 1 sense:

1. situated at the farthest possible point from a center

  Familiarity information: OUTERMOST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTERMOST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Situated at the farthest possible point from a center

Synonyms:

outermost; outmost

Similar:

outer (being on the outside or further from a center)

 Context examples 

The grooves in the outermost layer of skin on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet where sweat glands open.

(Epidermal Ridge, NCI Thesaurus)

The outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes (meninges) that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.

(Dura mater, NCI Thesaurus)

Its outermost planet, Kepler-90h, orbits at a similar distance to its star as Earth does to the Sun.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

The outermost layer of the mature ovary wall.

(Exocarp, Food and Drug Administration)

The object, known as SDSS J0104+1535, is a member of the so-called halo — the outermost reaches — of our Galaxy, made up of the most ancient stars.

(Astronomers Identify Purest, Most Massive Brown Dwarf, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The outermost of the two pleural membranes.

(Parietal Pleura, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypertrophy of the outermost layer of the epidermis.

(Hyperkeratosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The outermost layer of cardiac tissue lining of the left ventricle.

(Left Ventricular Epicardium, NCI Thesaurus)

But one large section — the outermost of the large, main rings, called the A ring — was much warmer than the models predicted.

(At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others, NASA)

Your cornea is the outermost layer of your eye.

(Corneal Disorders, NIH National Eye Institute)