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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
outwards
    adv 1: toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!"
           [syn: outward, outwards] [ant: inward, inwards]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Outward \Out"ward\, Outwards \Out"wards\, adv. [AS. [=u]teweard.
   See Out, and -ward, -wards.]
   From the interior part; in a direction from the interior
   toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away;
   as, a ship bound outward.
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         The wrong side may be turned outward.    --Shak.
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         Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. --Sir
                                                  I. Newton.
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   Outward bound, bound in an outward direction or to foreign
      parts; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to
      homeward bound.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Outwards \Out"wards\, adv.
   See Outward, adv.
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