outway

English

Etymology

out +‎ way

Noun

outway (plural outways)

1. (rare) A way out; an exit or outlet.
   • 1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Country Life, volume 11, page 544:

     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 […]

   • 1987, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “Smooth Criminal”:

     So they came into the outway. / It was Sunday, what a black day.

2. (Internet) The path outbound from the LAN (Local Area Network) to the WAN (Wide Area Network).
   • 1970, B Beizer, “Towards a new theory of sequential switching networks”, in IEEE Transactions on Computers:

     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.

   • 1975, AR Meo, IEEE Transactions on Computers:

     A parallel multiplier could theoretically be realized as a two-level multiple-outway combinational network, but its cost would be prohibitive.

   • 1987, JH Lemelson, Communication system and method (US Patent 4,710,977):

     Another object is to provide a communication system which provides for two-way communication between a central station and one or more outway stations wherein the outway stations are both controlled and powered by radiant energy directed thereto from the central station

See also

• outweigh

Anagrams

• way out, way-out