The outer parts of something are the parts which contain or enclose the other parts, and which are furthest from the centre. He heard a voice in the outer room. the outer suburbs of the city. inner
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world
Join In a relational database, a query that accesses two or more tables and returns a result set that can include records that do not match on all tables Outer joins run forever Known in IS circles as queries from Hell