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Out of School Care and Recreation The field of Out of School Care and Recreation, often abbreviated as OSCAR, provides forms of childcare to children whose school days do not coincide with the working hours of their parents or guardians: before/after school and/or during school holidays. Often based in or near schools, it provides supervision and recreational/educational facilities.
Out of Sight (band) Out of Sight are a 4-piece Alternative/Punk band from South Bucks, England established in 2001. The band have become, in a relatively short space of time, rising stars in the British pop punk scene with their recently released premiere effort "Something Created By Belief", produced by notable American producer John Naclerio (Brand New), and released on independent label, Scylla Records.
Out of Step (film) Out of Step is a 2002 film about an LDS young woman from Utah who moves to New York, New York to pursue and education in dance at New York University. There, she receives the affections of two young men and must eventually chose between them.
Out of Step (television programme) Out of Step is a documentary series made by Associated-Rediffusion in 1957, in which presenter Daniel Farson 'looks for unconventional opinions' - surrounding a particular topical issue. Episodes lasted approximately 16 minutes, and the show was placed at 10.
Out of the box Items, functionalities, or features provided out of the box are those that do not require any additional installations, plug-ins, expansion packs, or products. In addition to being used for tangible products, the phrase is often used in a less literal sense for software, which may not be distributed in any box but offer certain functions "out of the box.
Out of the Blue (1996 TV series) Out of the Blue (1996) was a syndicated sitcom for teenagers filmed on location at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, USA. It is notable for each of its 22 episodes being filmed in both Spanish and English simultaneously and starred a mostly Hispanic cast that hailed from several different nationalities.
Out of the Blue (Claudia Carawan album) Out of the Blue is the debut of Claudia Carawan, and derives its sound from several styles including soul, old school R&B, reggae and jazz. The positive lyrics of the album lean heavily on messages of hope, love, and inspiration.
Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson album) Out of the Blue is the debut album by American singer Debbie Gibson, released in 1987 on Atlantic Records. Gibson had released her first self-penned single "Only in My Dreams" the previous year and a different mix of that song was found on this album.
Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson song) "Out of the Blue" is the third single by American singer Debbie Gibson. From her debut album of the same title and released in early 1988, this single gave Gibson her highest chart placing so far at the time by reaching number three in the U.
Out of the Blue (Oxford University) Out of the Blue (OOTB) is an all-male student-run a cappella group at Oxford University in England. The group concentrate on covers of modern rock and pop songs, though also perform older songs, barbershop numbers and comedy sketches.
Out of the Box Out of the Box is a Disney Channel show for kids ages 4-8, that took place in a box, really a giant playhouse, where kids and two hosts, Vivian McLaughlin and Tony made arts & crafts, played games, and sang songs. The show ran from October 1998, until it was cancelled in August 2003.
Out of the Dark (1995 novel) Out of the Dark (1995) is a novel by Canadian author Welwyn Wilton Katz. It centres on a young boy who had recently lost his mother, and who has just moved with his remaining family to a small village near L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
Out of the Dust Out of the Dust is a novel written by Karen Hesse. It was winner of the Newbery Medal in 1998, Scott O'Dell Award, an ALA Notable Children's Book, an ALA "Best book for young adults", a School Library Journal "best book of the year", a Booklist "Editors' Choice" award, a Book Links "Lasting Connection", a Publishers Weekly "best book of the year", and a New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" selection.
Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions is a short story collection by James Tiptree, Jr that was first published in 1981 as a Del Rey Books paperback original. All but two of the stories had been previously published, four of them under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon (as opposed to Tiptree, also a pseudonym).
Out of the frying pan into the fire Out of the frying pan into the fire is a phrase which can be used in one of two ways. It can be used in the same way as "from bad to worse," which as the wording suggests means going from an unpleasant situation to one even more so - or it can describe the belief that one has escaped a dangerous or troublesome situation, when in actual fact they have entered an even worse one.
Out of the Inkwell Out of the Inkwell was the title of a short experimental film that Max Fleischer independently produced in about 1915-1916 to demonstrate his invention of the rotoscope as a means for achieving realistic movement by animated characters. His younger brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown costume to provide the model for an animated clown.
Out of the Inner Circle Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security is a book by Bill Landreth and Howard Rheingold, published in 1985 by Microsoft Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, Inc. (ISBN 0-671-30942-0).
Out of the Park Baseball Out of the Park Baseball (latest version entitled Out of the Park Baseball Manager 2006), also known as OOTP, is a text-based baseball simulator for career and fictional play. The brainchild of German programmer Markus Heinsohn, the game began in the late nineties as a DOS-based game.
Out of the Past Out of the Past (released in Britain as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir in which a small-town gas-station owner's mysterious past catches up with him. It features Robert Mitchum in his first starring role and Jane Greer as the femme fatale from his previous life.
Out of the Shadows "Out of the Shadows" is a song by British Heavy Metal band Iron Maiden and was composed and written by Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris. The song is featured on their 2006 album, A Matter of Life and Death, which was released on August 28 in most of the world, and September 5 in the United States of America and Canada.
Out of the Silent Planet (song) "Out of the Silent Planet" is a single from the Iron Maiden album Brave New World, released in 2000. The single features two live tracks from the 1999 Ed Hunter tour, which featured the band reunited with guitarist Adrian Smith and vocalist Bruce Dickinson, as well as the promotional MTV video for "Out of the Silent Planet.
Out of the Trees Out of the Trees was a television sketch show pilot written by Graham Chapman, Douglas Adams and Bernard McKenna and broadcast on BBC 2. The show shared some of the stream-of-consciousness style of Monty Python's Flying Circus, of which Chapman was a member.
Out of the Woods Out of the Woods is the debut solo album from singer, Tracey Thorn, due March 5 2007 on Virgin Records. The majority of the album's production was produced by Ewan Pearson who also produced the first single from the album, "It's All True".
Out of This World (musical) Cole Porter's Out of This World debuted on Broadway in 1950. A musical adaptation of Plautus' comedy Amphitryon, the story revolves around the lives of Roman gods Mercury and Jupiter, who are in search of some entertainment of the human kind.
Out of Time (song) "Out of Time" is a song by Blur and was released as the lead single from their seventh album Think Tank in 2003 (see 2003 in British music). The song is a bass-driven ballad with minimal drums and only acoustic guitar.
Out of Time’s Abyss Out of Time's Abyss is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918, with Out of Time's Abyss forming the third installment.
Out of Water Out of Water is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Enigma Records in 1990 and subsequently re-released on Hammill's own Fie label. Hammill himself considers this album to be a turning point from his mid-eighties style.
Out on a Limb Shirley MacLaine stars as herself in this TV movie, a powerfully candid recreation of the passionate love affair and spiritual adventure that took the actress to some of the world's most exotic locales--and to the innermost reaches of her very being. Shirley, feeling something lacking in her life, finds herself increasingly drawn toward the idea that there is more to living and the world around her than what we generally acknowledge.
Out on the Tiles "Out on the Tiles" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from the 1970 album Led Zeppelin III. It was born out of a little ditty that Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham used to sing when the band was going out to play.
Out Of My Hands (album) Out Of My Hands is the name of the second album by UK R&B / Soul singer-songwriter Keisha White. The album is said to be made up of tracks from Keisha's debut album "Seventeen", including "The Weakness In Me" and 6 brand new tracks including her latest single "Don't Mistake Me" and the next single, "I Choose Life".
Out Of Order (Computer game) Out Of Order is a 2D freeware Adventure game for Windows PCs, created with the SLUDGE engine by Tim Furnish. It sports a point-and-click interface which players use to control the protagonist, Hurford Schlitzting.
Out Run Out Run (also spelled OutRun and Outrun) is a 1986 racing game designed by Yu Suzuki and Sega-AM2 for the video arcade market. In retrospective interviews, Yu Suzuki has classified Out Run not as a racing game, but as a "driving" game.
Out Run 2019 Out Run 2019 (Japanese: アウăă©ăł 2019) is a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis-only psuedo-sequel to Out Run that takes place in the future. The object is to race against time in a rocket-powered car (with a maximum speed of 682 MPH [1097 km/h]) across five different stages around the world.
Out to Lunch (TV program) The prime-time special Out to Lunch aired on December 10, 1974 on ABC, from 9 to 10pm ET. It mixed the Sesame Street and The Electric Company casts along with guest stars Elliott Gould, Barbara Eden, and Carol Burnett.
Out to Win Out to Win (ćĄćĄä¸şčµ˘) is a television serial set in modern-day Singapore. Produced by MediaCorp TV Channel 8, it starred Fann Wong in drama about a self-centred SIMEX (futures stockbroking) trader who gradually alienates her friends and family by doing whatever it takes to rise up the corporate ladder.
Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival is an annual film festival screening New Zealand and international homosexual films. The festival takes place in late May/early June in three cities: Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
Out There Out There is a re-broadcast show from Australia, following the trials and tribulations of a high school boy named Reilly (Douglas Smith) who moves to Australia from California as his father flees the authorities. He stays with his aunt and uncle who are the owners of a nature reserve and veterinary clinic.
Out West Out West (subtitle Live at the Fillmore) is a live double-album released by Gomez in June 2005. It features material primarily from their first two albums, Bring It On and Liquid Skin, with a few tracks each from In Our Gun and Split the Difference, and one from the Machismo E.
Out-of-band infrastructure The concept of out-of-band infrastructure (OOBI) has been used throughout the telecom industry for voice communication since the mid-1950s. Having a critical requirement to always provide dial-tone for health and safety reasons, the telecom industry created elaborate mechanisms which allowed quick service restoration using alternative communication pathways which were physically and logically separate from the voice traffic itself.
Out-of-body experience An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, seeing one's physical body from a place outside one's body (autoscopy). Approximately one in ten people claim to have had an out-of-body experience at some time in their lives.
Out-of-core algorithm In computer science and applications, out-of-core refers to algorithms which process data that is too large to fit into a computer's main memory at one time. Such algorithms must be optimized to efficiently fetch and access data stored in slow bulk memory such as hard drive or tape drives.
Out-of-home advertising Out-of-home advertising (also referred to as OOH) is essentially all type of advertising that tries to reach the consumer while he or she is not at home. This is in contrast to broadcast, print, or internet advertising, which may target out-of-home viewers (e.
Out-of-order execution In computer engineering, out-of-order execution, OoOE, is a paradigm used in most high-speed microprocessors in order to make use of cycles that would otherwise be wasted by a certain type of costly delay. Most modern CPU designs include support for out of order execution.
Out-of-service The out-of-service tone, or SIT (special information tone) is a special tone heard on a phone line when a number dialed is out of service, not working, or currently unavailable. It consists of three tones, and can vary from country to country.
Out-Of-Box Experience The term Out of Box Experience usually refers to computer hardware or software. It describes the experience a user has when installing and/or performing initial configuration on a piece of hardware or software.
Outaouais Herald Emeritus Outaouais Herald of Arms Emeritus (Héraut Outaouais émérite in French) is the title of one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa. Herald Emeritus is an honorary position reserved for former heralds who have given distinguished service.
Outback (group) Outback was an Australian World music group founded in the late 80s by multi-instrumentalists Graham Wiggins and Martin Cradick, although the former is American and the latter British. The group became famous for its fusing of traditional Australian tribal music, represented primarily through Wiggins's didgeridoo, with modern Western music, mostly Cradick's acoustic guitar.
Outback Highway The Outback Highway or Outback Way is a series of roads and dirt tracks linking Winton, Queensland and Laverton, Western Australia. At 2,800 km, it traverses the inhospitable arid heart of Australia, the great Outback.
Outback Steakhouse Outback Steakhouse is a casual dining American restaurant chain with over 900 locations in 23 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It specializes in USDA Choice and, occasionally, Prime steaks and other offerings in an Australian-inspired environment.
Outbound content compliance Outbound content compliance (also outbound content security) is a relatively new segment of the computer security field, which aims to detect and prevent outbound content that violates policy of the organization and/or government regulations. It deals with internal threats, as opposite to more traditional security solutions (firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam etc.
Outbound Flight Project In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Outbound Flight Project was an exploration venture commissioned by the Jedi, most notably Jedi Master Jorus C'Baoth, in the waning days of the Old Republic, after Palpatine became Chancellor, but prior to the Clone Wars.
Outbound Management Development Programmes Outbound Management Programmes are a method of enhancing organizational performance through experiential learning. These find application chiefly in soft-skills related training and general performance troubleshooting.
Outbreak Outbreak is a classification used in epidemiology to describe a small, localised epidemic, often contained to a village or a small town, while the term epidemic means that the disease affects a region in a country or a group of countries. The term pandemic, finally, is used to describe a global epidemic.
Outbreak (film) Outbreak (1995) is a suspense film starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who has also directed films such as Troy, The Perfect Storm, and Air Force One.
Outbreeding depression In evolutionary biology, Outbreeding depression refers to cases when progeny from crosses between individuals from different populations have lower fitness than progeny from crosses between individuals from the same population. This phenomenon can occur in two ways.
Outcast Islands The Outcast Islands are two small islands, nearly 0.5 miles apart, and a number of surrounding rocks lying 2 miles southwest of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
Outcome Budget: 2005-06 Outcome Budget: 2005-06 is a 723-page document tabled in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram. It is a compilation of desired outcomes identified by 44 ministries and 61 departments to be achieved from the allocations made in the General Budget for the fiscal year 2005-06.
Outcome-based education Outcome-based education (OBE) is an education reform largely in primary and secondary education ("K-12" in the United States) which is intended to objectively measure student performance. Measurement may be used to determine whether or not the education system is performing adequately, and in some cases whether or not students will be certified as educated by the system.
Outcrop Outcrop is a geological term referring to the appearance of bedrock or superficial deposits exposed at the surface of the Earth. In most places the bedrock or superficial deposits are covered by a mantle of soil and vegetation and cannot be seen or examined closely.
Outcrossing Outcrossing is the practice of introducing unrelated genetic material into a breeding line. It increases genetic diversity, thus reducing the probability of all individuals being subject to disease or reducing genetic abnormalities(only within the first generation).
Outdated theories of anaesthetic action A general anaesthetic (or anesthetic) drug is an anaesthetic drug that brings about a reversible loss of consciousness. These drugs are generally administered by an anaesthetist/anaesthesiologist in order to induce or maintain general anaesthesia to facilitate surgery.
Outdoor activity Outdoor activities usually mean activities done in nature away from civilization, such as hill walking, trekking, canoeing, kayaking, climbing, caving, and arguably broader groups such as watersports and snowsport. Other similar activities include photography, biking, kayaking or just spending time with family.
Outdoor Activity Club Outdoor Activity Club, sometimes known as Outdoor Adventure Club, (abbreviation: ODAC ) is a Co-curricular activity (CCA) in some junior colleges and universities in Singapore. People gather to go for camps, cycling trips, overseas adventure trip, or organise competition.
Outdoor cinema equipment Outdoor cinema equipment typically consists of a projection surface, a projector, DVD or computer, audio mixer, and audio speakers. Improvements and innovations with each of these components has created a boom in the outdoor cinema industry.
Outdoor education Outdoor education (also known as adventure education) usually refers to organized learning that takes place in the outdoors. Outdoor education programs often involve residential or journey-based experiences in which students participate in a variety of adventurous challenges such as hiking, climbing, canoeing, ropes courses, and group games.
Outdoor literature Outdoor literature is a literature genre about or involving the outdoors. Outdoor literature encompasses several different literary genres variously called Exploration literature, Adventure literature and Nature literature.
Outdoor Labour Test Order The Outdoor Labour Test Order was a piece of policy issued by the Poor Law Commission on 13th April 1842 which allowed the use of outdoor relief to the able-bodied poor. The order was issued after there was some opposition to the Commission's previous order stating that only indoor relief should be used.
Outdoor Life Conservation Pledge The Outdoor Life Conservation Pledge was established in 1946 and then revised in 1993. The pledge was written to remind readers of Outdoor Life magazine and other sportsmen of the vigilance needed to preserve the natural world.
Outdoor Recreation Party The Outdoor Recreation Party is a minor political party in Australia. It largely represents the outdoor community and such interests as camping, kayaking, cycling, 4WDing, skiing, walking, fishing lobbies, as well as similar recreational groups which perceive their interests as being threatened by conservation groups implementing "wilderness" protection policies which ignore the notion of 'human interaction'.
Outdoor-indoor transmission class An Outdoor-Indoor Transmission Class (OITC) is a single-number rating, defined in ASTM International E 1332, used to rate the effectiveness of a building partition in isolating transportation noise (lower-frequency ).
Outeniqua Choo Tjoe The Outeniqua Choo Tjoe is the last remaining continually-operated passenger steam train in Africa, still running six days of the week. The railway was completed in 1928, and links the towns of George and Knysna in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Outer barrier Outer barrier is the name given to the series of barrier islands which divide the lagoons of Great South Bay, South Oyster Bay, and Jamaica Bay south of Long Island from the Atlantic Ocean. These islands include Fire Island and Jones Beach Island.
Outer being The Outer Being in Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga and integral psychology refers to the superficial and limited surface existence which characterises our everyday consciousness and experience. It includes a physical, vital, and mental aspect, and is also the location of the desire soul.
Outer Banks The Outer Banks consists of a 100-mile (160-km) long string of beaches and narrow barrier islands on the East Coast of the United States. The Outer Banks form approximately the northern half of the state of North Carolina's Atlantic coastline, and separate the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds from the Atlantic Ocean.
Outer Brewster Island Outer Brewster Island, also known as Outward Island, is a one of the outer islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area and is situated some 10 miles offshore of downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of 20 acres, and consists of exposed bedrock covered by fertile soil bounded by a rocky shore with steep cliffs.
Outer Circle railway line, Melbourne The Outer Circle was a steam-era suburban railway line, in Melbourne, Australia. It covered much of the modern City of Boroondara, including the suburbs of (from north to south) Kew, Camberwell, Burwood, Ashburton, and Malvern East.
Outer Circle Trail The outer circle trail is a shared use walking and cycling path located in Melbourne, Australia. It is heavily used by local residents and recreational cyclists, due to its proximity to other paths, many suburbs, and connecting transport.
Outer Critics Circle Award Begun during the 1949-1950 theater season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway. The awards are decided upon by theater critics who review for media outlets outside of New York City.
Outer darkness In Christianity, the outer darkness (often capitalized as Outer Darkness) is a place referred to three times in the Gospel of Matthew (8:12, 22:13, and 25:30) into which a person may be "cast out", and where there is "weeping and gnashing of teeth". Generally, the outer darkness is thought to be hell; however, many Christians associate the outer darkness more generally as a place of separation from God or from the metaphorical "wedding banquet" that Jesus is expected to have upon his Second Coming.
Outer Drive Outer Drive is a 23 1/2-mile long bypass road which encircles both the eastern and western portions of the Metro Detroit area. At its western starting point at Jefferson Avenue near the Detroit River, the thoroughfare meanders northwestly to Michigan Avenue, where it makes a northeast bend along the River Rouge; it then continues northeastly with several 90 degree angle turns until Outer Drive ends at Livernois Avenue.
Outer enamel epithelium The outer enamel epithelium, also known as the external enamel epithelium, is a layer of cuboidal cells located on the periphery of the enamel organ in a developing tooth. This layer is first seen during the bell stage.
Outer Harbor railway line, Adelaide Outer Harbor Railway Line is a rail route in Adelaide, South Australia, that travels from the Adelaide Railway Station to the Outer Harbor of Port Adelaide. Its route encompasses many suburban railway station, and shares part of its run with the Grange Railway Line.
Outer Hebrides The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (officially known by the Gaelic name, Na h-Eileanan Siar) comprise an island chain off the west coast of Scotland. They form part of the Hebrides, separated from the Scottish mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the stormy stretch of water known as the Minch and the Little Minch.
Outer House The Outer House one of the two parts of the Scottish Court of Session, analogous to the High Court in England and Wales. It is a court of first instance, although some statutory appeals are remitted to it by the other more senior part, the Inner House.
Outer Islands (Seychelles) The Outer Islands is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank (Seychelles Plateau) which defines the location of the Inner Islands. They are located at distances of 230 to 1150 km from the main Seychelles island of Mahé, and are all of coral formation.
Outer Lands The Outer Lands is a term denoting the prominent archipelagic region off of the southern coast of New England in the United States. This region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York, comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island and Long Island, as well as surrounding islets.
Outer London Defence Ring The Outer London Defence Ring was a defensive ring built around London during the early part of the Second World War. It was intended as a defence against a German invasion, and would have served as the last line of defence against attacking armoured forces.
Outer measure In mathematics, in particular in measure theory, an outer measure is a function defined on all subsets of a given set with values in the extended real numbers satisfying some additional technical conditions. A general theory of outer measures was developed by Carathéodory to provide a basis for the theory of measurable sets and countably additive measures.
Outer Manchuria Outer Manchuria (Chinese: 外滿洲), known in China as Outer Northeast [China] (Chinese: 外東北), is the territory ceded by China to Russia in the Treaty of Aigun in 1858 and the Treaty of Peking in 1860. The area comprises the present-day Russian areas of Primorsky Krai, southern Khabarovsk Krai, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Amur Oblast.
Outer planets of the Solar System in fiction The outer planets of the Solar System are hypothetical or fictional planets on the edge of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, which sometimes serve as settings or references in science fiction. A hypothetical trans-Neptunian planet was sometimes referred to as "Planet X", where "X" signifies an unknown quantity (as in mathematics).
Outer plexiform layer The outer plexiform layer (external plexiform layer) is a layer of neuronal synapses in the retina of the eye. It consists of a dense network of synapses between dendrites of horizontal cells from the inner nuclear layer, and photoreceptor cell inner segments from the outer nuclear layer.
Outer Perimeter The Outer Perimeter was an expressway originally planned to encircle Atlanta about 20-to-25 miles further away from the city than the existing Perimeter Highway (I-285). The original plan of the highway would have roughly gone through or near the communities of Cartersville, Canton, Cumming, Buford, Dacula, Loganville, Conyers, McDonough, Hampton, Peachtree City, Villa Rica, and Dallas.
Outer Plane In Dungeons & Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game, an Outer Plane is one of a number of general types of planes of existence. They can also be referred to as godly planes, spiritual planes or divine planes.
Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the NASA center primarily responsible for robotic space missions to the planets of our solar system. The group within JPL that is responsible for the design of missions to the outer planets (the planets beyond Mars) is the Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group.
Outer Ring Road (Bangalore) Bangalore's 62 km long Outer Ring Road developed by the Bangalore Development Authority (connects all highways around the city - Tumkur Road (NH-4), Bellary Road (NH-7), Old Madras Road, Hosur Road (NH-4A), Bannerghatta Road, Kanakapura Road, Mysore Road (SH-17) and Magadi Road. It passes through major suburbs such as Hebbal],Banaswadi,[[Krishnarajapuram, Marathahalli, Madiwala, BTM Layout, JP Nagar, Banashankari, Kengeri, Nagarabhavi, NANDAGUDI ANEKAL WHITEFIELD.
Outer sphere electron transfer Outer sphere electron transfer refers to an electron transfer (ET) event that occurs between chemicals that remain separate species before, during, and after the ET event. This is opposed to inner sphere electron transfer in which the two sites undergoing ET are connected by a chemical bridge.
Outer Skerries The Outer Skerries, often called the Out Skerries or just The Skerries (although this may lead to confusion with the Ve Skerries), are an island group in Shetland, Scotland. They lie about four miles north east of Whalsay and form the easternmost part of Scotland, lying only 320Â km from Norway.
Outer Solar System The outer Solar System (as opposed to the outer planets) is that part of the Solar System which begins at roughly the orbit of Neptune and terminates at maximum orbit distance, approximately one light year from the sun in terms of orbital measurements. The environment of the whole Solar System is also composed of the Solar Wind which, in this outermost region of the solar system, is the heliopause where the Solar Wind meets the Interstellar Medium- especially the Local Interstellar Medium, aka LISM.
Outer trench swell The outer trench swell or outer rise is a subtle ridge on the seafloor near an oceanic trench, where a descending plate begins to flex and fault in preparation for its descent into the mantle at a subduction zone. The lithosphere is bent upwards by plate stresses, and is not in isostatic equilibrium.
Outerbridge Crossing The Outerbridge Crossing is a cantilever bridge over the Arthur Kill connecting Perth Amboy, New Jersey with Staten Island, New York. Known locally as the "Outerbridge", it is part of a popular route on NY-440/NJ-440 from the south and west to New York City and Long Island.
Out of Sight (band) Out of Sight are a 4-piece Alternative/Punk band from South Bucks, England established in 2001. The band have become, in a relatively short space of time, rising stars in the British pop punk scene with their recently released premiere effort "Something Created By Belief", produced by notable American producer John Naclerio (Brand New), and released on independent label, Scylla Records.
Out of Step (film) Out of Step is a 2002 film about an LDS young woman from Utah who moves to New York, New York to pursue and education in dance at New York University. There, she receives the affections of two young men and must eventually chose between them.
Out of Step (television programme) Out of Step is a documentary series made by Associated-Rediffusion in 1957, in which presenter Daniel Farson 'looks for unconventional opinions' - surrounding a particular topical issue. Episodes lasted approximately 16 minutes, and the show was placed at 10.
Out of the box Items, functionalities, or features provided out of the box are those that do not require any additional installations, plug-ins, expansion packs, or products. In addition to being used for tangible products, the phrase is often used in a less literal sense for software, which may not be distributed in any box but offer certain functions "out of the box.
Out of the Blue (1996 TV series) Out of the Blue (1996) was a syndicated sitcom for teenagers filmed on location at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, USA. It is notable for each of its 22 episodes being filmed in both Spanish and English simultaneously and starred a mostly Hispanic cast that hailed from several different nationalities.
Out of the Blue (Claudia Carawan album) Out of the Blue is the debut of Claudia Carawan, and derives its sound from several styles including soul, old school R&B, reggae and jazz. The positive lyrics of the album lean heavily on messages of hope, love, and inspiration.
Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson album) Out of the Blue is the debut album by American singer Debbie Gibson, released in 1987 on Atlantic Records. Gibson had released her first self-penned single "Only in My Dreams" the previous year and a different mix of that song was found on this album.
Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson song) "Out of the Blue" is the third single by American singer Debbie Gibson. From her debut album of the same title and released in early 1988, this single gave Gibson her highest chart placing so far at the time by reaching number three in the U.
Out of the Blue (Oxford University) Out of the Blue (OOTB) is an all-male student-run a cappella group at Oxford University in England. The group concentrate on covers of modern rock and pop songs, though also perform older songs, barbershop numbers and comedy sketches.
Out of the Box Out of the Box is a Disney Channel show for kids ages 4-8, that took place in a box, really a giant playhouse, where kids and two hosts, Vivian McLaughlin and Tony made arts & crafts, played games, and sang songs. The show ran from October 1998, until it was cancelled in August 2003.
Out of the Dark (1995 novel) Out of the Dark (1995) is a novel by Canadian author Welwyn Wilton Katz. It centres on a young boy who had recently lost his mother, and who has just moved with his remaining family to a small village near L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
Out of the Dust Out of the Dust is a novel written by Karen Hesse. It was winner of the Newbery Medal in 1998, Scott O'Dell Award, an ALA Notable Children's Book, an ALA "Best book for young adults", a School Library Journal "best book of the year", a Booklist "Editors' Choice" award, a Book Links "Lasting Connection", a Publishers Weekly "best book of the year", and a New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" selection.
Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions is a short story collection by James Tiptree, Jr that was first published in 1981 as a Del Rey Books paperback original. All but two of the stories had been previously published, four of them under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon (as opposed to Tiptree, also a pseudonym).
Out of the frying pan into the fire Out of the frying pan into the fire is a phrase which can be used in one of two ways. It can be used in the same way as "from bad to worse," which as the wording suggests means going from an unpleasant situation to one even more so - or it can describe the belief that one has escaped a dangerous or troublesome situation, when in actual fact they have entered an even worse one.
Out of the Inkwell Out of the Inkwell was the title of a short experimental film that Max Fleischer independently produced in about 1915-1916 to demonstrate his invention of the rotoscope as a means for achieving realistic movement by animated characters. His younger brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown costume to provide the model for an animated clown.
Out of the Inner Circle Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security is a book by Bill Landreth and Howard Rheingold, published in 1985 by Microsoft Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, Inc. (ISBN 0-671-30942-0).
Out of the Park Baseball Out of the Park Baseball (latest version entitled Out of the Park Baseball Manager 2006), also known as OOTP, is a text-based baseball simulator for career and fictional play. The brainchild of German programmer Markus Heinsohn, the game began in the late nineties as a DOS-based game.
Out of the Past Out of the Past (released in Britain as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir in which a small-town gas-station owner's mysterious past catches up with him. It features Robert Mitchum in his first starring role and Jane Greer as the femme fatale from his previous life.
Out of the Shadows "Out of the Shadows" is a song by British Heavy Metal band Iron Maiden and was composed and written by Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris. The song is featured on their 2006 album, A Matter of Life and Death, which was released on August 28 in most of the world, and September 5 in the United States of America and Canada.
Out of the Silent Planet (song) "Out of the Silent Planet" is a single from the Iron Maiden album Brave New World, released in 2000. The single features two live tracks from the 1999 Ed Hunter tour, which featured the band reunited with guitarist Adrian Smith and vocalist Bruce Dickinson, as well as the promotional MTV video for "Out of the Silent Planet.
Out of the Trees Out of the Trees was a television sketch show pilot written by Graham Chapman, Douglas Adams and Bernard McKenna and broadcast on BBC 2. The show shared some of the stream-of-consciousness style of Monty Python's Flying Circus, of which Chapman was a member.
Out of the Woods Out of the Woods is the debut solo album from singer, Tracey Thorn, due March 5 2007 on Virgin Records. The majority of the album's production was produced by Ewan Pearson who also produced the first single from the album, "It's All True".
Out of This World (musical) Cole Porter's Out of This World debuted on Broadway in 1950. A musical adaptation of Plautus' comedy Amphitryon, the story revolves around the lives of Roman gods Mercury and Jupiter, who are in search of some entertainment of the human kind.
Out of Time (song) "Out of Time" is a song by Blur and was released as the lead single from their seventh album Think Tank in 2003 (see 2003 in British music). The song is a bass-driven ballad with minimal drums and only acoustic guitar.
Out of Time’s Abyss Out of Time's Abyss is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918, with Out of Time's Abyss forming the third installment.
Out of Water Out of Water is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Enigma Records in 1990 and subsequently re-released on Hammill's own Fie label. Hammill himself considers this album to be a turning point from his mid-eighties style.
Out on a Limb Shirley MacLaine stars as herself in this TV movie, a powerfully candid recreation of the passionate love affair and spiritual adventure that took the actress to some of the world's most exotic locales--and to the innermost reaches of her very being. Shirley, feeling something lacking in her life, finds herself increasingly drawn toward the idea that there is more to living and the world around her than what we generally acknowledge.
Out on the Tiles "Out on the Tiles" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from the 1970 album Led Zeppelin III. It was born out of a little ditty that Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham used to sing when the band was going out to play.
Out Of My Hands (album) Out Of My Hands is the name of the second album by UK R&B / Soul singer-songwriter Keisha White. The album is said to be made up of tracks from Keisha's debut album "Seventeen", including "The Weakness In Me" and 6 brand new tracks including her latest single "Don't Mistake Me" and the next single, "I Choose Life".
Out Of Order (Computer game) Out Of Order is a 2D freeware Adventure game for Windows PCs, created with the SLUDGE engine by Tim Furnish. It sports a point-and-click interface which players use to control the protagonist, Hurford Schlitzting.
Out Run Out Run (also spelled OutRun and Outrun) is a 1986 racing game designed by Yu Suzuki and Sega-AM2 for the video arcade market. In retrospective interviews, Yu Suzuki has classified Out Run not as a racing game, but as a "driving" game.
Out Run 2019 Out Run 2019 (Japanese: アウăă©ăł 2019) is a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis-only psuedo-sequel to Out Run that takes place in the future. The object is to race against time in a rocket-powered car (with a maximum speed of 682 MPH [1097 km/h]) across five different stages around the world.
Out to Lunch (TV program) The prime-time special Out to Lunch aired on December 10, 1974 on ABC, from 9 to 10pm ET. It mixed the Sesame Street and The Electric Company casts along with guest stars Elliott Gould, Barbara Eden, and Carol Burnett.
Out to Win Out to Win (ćĄćĄä¸şčµ˘) is a television serial set in modern-day Singapore. Produced by MediaCorp TV Channel 8, it starred Fann Wong in drama about a self-centred SIMEX (futures stockbroking) trader who gradually alienates her friends and family by doing whatever it takes to rise up the corporate ladder.
Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival is an annual film festival screening New Zealand and international homosexual films. The festival takes place in late May/early June in three cities: Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
Out There Out There is a re-broadcast show from Australia, following the trials and tribulations of a high school boy named Reilly (Douglas Smith) who moves to Australia from California as his father flees the authorities. He stays with his aunt and uncle who are the owners of a nature reserve and veterinary clinic.
Out West Out West (subtitle Live at the Fillmore) is a live double-album released by Gomez in June 2005. It features material primarily from their first two albums, Bring It On and Liquid Skin, with a few tracks each from In Our Gun and Split the Difference, and one from the Machismo E.
Out-of-band infrastructure The concept of out-of-band infrastructure (OOBI) has been used throughout the telecom industry for voice communication since the mid-1950s. Having a critical requirement to always provide dial-tone for health and safety reasons, the telecom industry created elaborate mechanisms which allowed quick service restoration using alternative communication pathways which were physically and logically separate from the voice traffic itself.
Out-of-body experience An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, seeing one's physical body from a place outside one's body (autoscopy). Approximately one in ten people claim to have had an out-of-body experience at some time in their lives.
Out-of-core algorithm In computer science and applications, out-of-core refers to algorithms which process data that is too large to fit into a computer's main memory at one time. Such algorithms must be optimized to efficiently fetch and access data stored in slow bulk memory such as hard drive or tape drives.
Out-of-home advertising Out-of-home advertising (also referred to as OOH) is essentially all type of advertising that tries to reach the consumer while he or she is not at home. This is in contrast to broadcast, print, or internet advertising, which may target out-of-home viewers (e.
Out-of-order execution In computer engineering, out-of-order execution, OoOE, is a paradigm used in most high-speed microprocessors in order to make use of cycles that would otherwise be wasted by a certain type of costly delay. Most modern CPU designs include support for out of order execution.
Out-of-service The out-of-service tone, or SIT (special information tone) is a special tone heard on a phone line when a number dialed is out of service, not working, or currently unavailable. It consists of three tones, and can vary from country to country.
Out-Of-Box Experience The term Out of Box Experience usually refers to computer hardware or software. It describes the experience a user has when installing and/or performing initial configuration on a piece of hardware or software.
Outaouais Herald Emeritus Outaouais Herald of Arms Emeritus (Héraut Outaouais émérite in French) is the title of one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa. Herald Emeritus is an honorary position reserved for former heralds who have given distinguished service.
Outback (group) Outback was an Australian World music group founded in the late 80s by multi-instrumentalists Graham Wiggins and Martin Cradick, although the former is American and the latter British. The group became famous for its fusing of traditional Australian tribal music, represented primarily through Wiggins's didgeridoo, with modern Western music, mostly Cradick's acoustic guitar.
Outback Highway The Outback Highway or Outback Way is a series of roads and dirt tracks linking Winton, Queensland and Laverton, Western Australia. At 2,800 km, it traverses the inhospitable arid heart of Australia, the great Outback.
Outback Steakhouse Outback Steakhouse is a casual dining American restaurant chain with over 900 locations in 23 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It specializes in USDA Choice and, occasionally, Prime steaks and other offerings in an Australian-inspired environment.
Outbound content compliance Outbound content compliance (also outbound content security) is a relatively new segment of the computer security field, which aims to detect and prevent outbound content that violates policy of the organization and/or government regulations. It deals with internal threats, as opposite to more traditional security solutions (firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam etc.
Outbound Flight Project In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Outbound Flight Project was an exploration venture commissioned by the Jedi, most notably Jedi Master Jorus C'Baoth, in the waning days of the Old Republic, after Palpatine became Chancellor, but prior to the Clone Wars.
Outbound Management Development Programmes Outbound Management Programmes are a method of enhancing organizational performance through experiential learning. These find application chiefly in soft-skills related training and general performance troubleshooting.
Outbreak Outbreak is a classification used in epidemiology to describe a small, localised epidemic, often contained to a village or a small town, while the term epidemic means that the disease affects a region in a country or a group of countries. The term pandemic, finally, is used to describe a global epidemic.
Outbreak (film) Outbreak (1995) is a suspense film starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who has also directed films such as Troy, The Perfect Storm, and Air Force One.
Outbreeding depression In evolutionary biology, Outbreeding depression refers to cases when progeny from crosses between individuals from different populations have lower fitness than progeny from crosses between individuals from the same population. This phenomenon can occur in two ways.
Outcast Islands The Outcast Islands are two small islands, nearly 0.5 miles apart, and a number of surrounding rocks lying 2 miles southwest of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
Outcome Budget: 2005-06 Outcome Budget: 2005-06 is a 723-page document tabled in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram. It is a compilation of desired outcomes identified by 44 ministries and 61 departments to be achieved from the allocations made in the General Budget for the fiscal year 2005-06.
Outcome-based education Outcome-based education (OBE) is an education reform largely in primary and secondary education ("K-12" in the United States) which is intended to objectively measure student performance. Measurement may be used to determine whether or not the education system is performing adequately, and in some cases whether or not students will be certified as educated by the system.
Outcrop Outcrop is a geological term referring to the appearance of bedrock or superficial deposits exposed at the surface of the Earth. In most places the bedrock or superficial deposits are covered by a mantle of soil and vegetation and cannot be seen or examined closely.
Outcrossing Outcrossing is the practice of introducing unrelated genetic material into a breeding line. It increases genetic diversity, thus reducing the probability of all individuals being subject to disease or reducing genetic abnormalities(only within the first generation).
Outdated theories of anaesthetic action A general anaesthetic (or anesthetic) drug is an anaesthetic drug that brings about a reversible loss of consciousness. These drugs are generally administered by an anaesthetist/anaesthesiologist in order to induce or maintain general anaesthesia to facilitate surgery.
Outdoor activity Outdoor activities usually mean activities done in nature away from civilization, such as hill walking, trekking, canoeing, kayaking, climbing, caving, and arguably broader groups such as watersports and snowsport. Other similar activities include photography, biking, kayaking or just spending time with family.
Outdoor Activity Club Outdoor Activity Club, sometimes known as Outdoor Adventure Club, (abbreviation: ODAC ) is a Co-curricular activity (CCA) in some junior colleges and universities in Singapore. People gather to go for camps, cycling trips, overseas adventure trip, or organise competition.
Outdoor cinema equipment Outdoor cinema equipment typically consists of a projection surface, a projector, DVD or computer, audio mixer, and audio speakers. Improvements and innovations with each of these components has created a boom in the outdoor cinema industry.
Outdoor education Outdoor education (also known as adventure education) usually refers to organized learning that takes place in the outdoors. Outdoor education programs often involve residential or journey-based experiences in which students participate in a variety of adventurous challenges such as hiking, climbing, canoeing, ropes courses, and group games.
Outdoor literature Outdoor literature is a literature genre about or involving the outdoors. Outdoor literature encompasses several different literary genres variously called Exploration literature, Adventure literature and Nature literature.
Outdoor Labour Test Order The Outdoor Labour Test Order was a piece of policy issued by the Poor Law Commission on 13th April 1842 which allowed the use of outdoor relief to the able-bodied poor. The order was issued after there was some opposition to the Commission's previous order stating that only indoor relief should be used.
Outdoor Life Conservation Pledge The Outdoor Life Conservation Pledge was established in 1946 and then revised in 1993. The pledge was written to remind readers of Outdoor Life magazine and other sportsmen of the vigilance needed to preserve the natural world.
Outdoor Recreation Party The Outdoor Recreation Party is a minor political party in Australia. It largely represents the outdoor community and such interests as camping, kayaking, cycling, 4WDing, skiing, walking, fishing lobbies, as well as similar recreational groups which perceive their interests as being threatened by conservation groups implementing "wilderness" protection policies which ignore the notion of 'human interaction'.
Outdoor-indoor transmission class An Outdoor-Indoor Transmission Class (OITC) is a single-number rating, defined in ASTM International E 1332, used to rate the effectiveness of a building partition in isolating transportation noise (lower-frequency ).
Outeniqua Choo Tjoe The Outeniqua Choo Tjoe is the last remaining continually-operated passenger steam train in Africa, still running six days of the week. The railway was completed in 1928, and links the towns of George and Knysna in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Outer barrier Outer barrier is the name given to the series of barrier islands which divide the lagoons of Great South Bay, South Oyster Bay, and Jamaica Bay south of Long Island from the Atlantic Ocean. These islands include Fire Island and Jones Beach Island.
Outer being The Outer Being in Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga and integral psychology refers to the superficial and limited surface existence which characterises our everyday consciousness and experience. It includes a physical, vital, and mental aspect, and is also the location of the desire soul.
Outer Banks The Outer Banks consists of a 100-mile (160-km) long string of beaches and narrow barrier islands on the East Coast of the United States. The Outer Banks form approximately the northern half of the state of North Carolina's Atlantic coastline, and separate the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds from the Atlantic Ocean.
Outer Brewster Island Outer Brewster Island, also known as Outward Island, is a one of the outer islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area and is situated some 10 miles offshore of downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of 20 acres, and consists of exposed bedrock covered by fertile soil bounded by a rocky shore with steep cliffs.
Outer Circle railway line, Melbourne The Outer Circle was a steam-era suburban railway line, in Melbourne, Australia. It covered much of the modern City of Boroondara, including the suburbs of (from north to south) Kew, Camberwell, Burwood, Ashburton, and Malvern East.
Outer Circle Trail The outer circle trail is a shared use walking and cycling path located in Melbourne, Australia. It is heavily used by local residents and recreational cyclists, due to its proximity to other paths, many suburbs, and connecting transport.
Outer Critics Circle Award Begun during the 1949-1950 theater season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway. The awards are decided upon by theater critics who review for media outlets outside of New York City.
Outer darkness In Christianity, the outer darkness (often capitalized as Outer Darkness) is a place referred to three times in the Gospel of Matthew (8:12, 22:13, and 25:30) into which a person may be "cast out", and where there is "weeping and gnashing of teeth". Generally, the outer darkness is thought to be hell; however, many Christians associate the outer darkness more generally as a place of separation from God or from the metaphorical "wedding banquet" that Jesus is expected to have upon his Second Coming.
Outer Drive Outer Drive is a 23 1/2-mile long bypass road which encircles both the eastern and western portions of the Metro Detroit area. At its western starting point at Jefferson Avenue near the Detroit River, the thoroughfare meanders northwestly to Michigan Avenue, where it makes a northeast bend along the River Rouge; it then continues northeastly with several 90 degree angle turns until Outer Drive ends at Livernois Avenue.
Outer enamel epithelium The outer enamel epithelium, also known as the external enamel epithelium, is a layer of cuboidal cells located on the periphery of the enamel organ in a developing tooth. This layer is first seen during the bell stage.
Outer Harbor railway line, Adelaide Outer Harbor Railway Line is a rail route in Adelaide, South Australia, that travels from the Adelaide Railway Station to the Outer Harbor of Port Adelaide. Its route encompasses many suburban railway station, and shares part of its run with the Grange Railway Line.
Outer Hebrides The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (officially known by the Gaelic name, Na h-Eileanan Siar) comprise an island chain off the west coast of Scotland. They form part of the Hebrides, separated from the Scottish mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the stormy stretch of water known as the Minch and the Little Minch.
Outer House The Outer House one of the two parts of the Scottish Court of Session, analogous to the High Court in England and Wales. It is a court of first instance, although some statutory appeals are remitted to it by the other more senior part, the Inner House.
Outer Islands (Seychelles) The Outer Islands is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank (Seychelles Plateau) which defines the location of the Inner Islands. They are located at distances of 230 to 1150 km from the main Seychelles island of Mahé, and are all of coral formation.
Outer Lands The Outer Lands is a term denoting the prominent archipelagic region off of the southern coast of New England in the United States. This region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York, comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island and Long Island, as well as surrounding islets.
Outer London Defence Ring The Outer London Defence Ring was a defensive ring built around London during the early part of the Second World War. It was intended as a defence against a German invasion, and would have served as the last line of defence against attacking armoured forces.
Outer measure In mathematics, in particular in measure theory, an outer measure is a function defined on all subsets of a given set with values in the extended real numbers satisfying some additional technical conditions. A general theory of outer measures was developed by Carathéodory to provide a basis for the theory of measurable sets and countably additive measures.
Outer Manchuria Outer Manchuria (Chinese: 外滿洲), known in China as Outer Northeast [China] (Chinese: 外東北), is the territory ceded by China to Russia in the Treaty of Aigun in 1858 and the Treaty of Peking in 1860. The area comprises the present-day Russian areas of Primorsky Krai, southern Khabarovsk Krai, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Amur Oblast.
Outer planets of the Solar System in fiction The outer planets of the Solar System are hypothetical or fictional planets on the edge of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, which sometimes serve as settings or references in science fiction. A hypothetical trans-Neptunian planet was sometimes referred to as "Planet X", where "X" signifies an unknown quantity (as in mathematics).
Outer plexiform layer The outer plexiform layer (external plexiform layer) is a layer of neuronal synapses in the retina of the eye. It consists of a dense network of synapses between dendrites of horizontal cells from the inner nuclear layer, and photoreceptor cell inner segments from the outer nuclear layer.
Outer Perimeter The Outer Perimeter was an expressway originally planned to encircle Atlanta about 20-to-25 miles further away from the city than the existing Perimeter Highway (I-285). The original plan of the highway would have roughly gone through or near the communities of Cartersville, Canton, Cumming, Buford, Dacula, Loganville, Conyers, McDonough, Hampton, Peachtree City, Villa Rica, and Dallas.
Outer Plane In Dungeons & Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game, an Outer Plane is one of a number of general types of planes of existence. They can also be referred to as godly planes, spiritual planes or divine planes.
Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the NASA center primarily responsible for robotic space missions to the planets of our solar system. The group within JPL that is responsible for the design of missions to the outer planets (the planets beyond Mars) is the Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group.
Outer Ring Road (Bangalore) Bangalore's 62 km long Outer Ring Road developed by the Bangalore Development Authority (connects all highways around the city - Tumkur Road (NH-4), Bellary Road (NH-7), Old Madras Road, Hosur Road (NH-4A), Bannerghatta Road, Kanakapura Road, Mysore Road (SH-17) and Magadi Road. It passes through major suburbs such as Hebbal],Banaswadi,[[Krishnarajapuram, Marathahalli, Madiwala, BTM Layout, JP Nagar, Banashankari, Kengeri, Nagarabhavi, NANDAGUDI ANEKAL WHITEFIELD.
Outer sphere electron transfer Outer sphere electron transfer refers to an electron transfer (ET) event that occurs between chemicals that remain separate species before, during, and after the ET event. This is opposed to inner sphere electron transfer in which the two sites undergoing ET are connected by a chemical bridge.
Outer Skerries The Outer Skerries, often called the Out Skerries or just The Skerries (although this may lead to confusion with the Ve Skerries), are an island group in Shetland, Scotland. They lie about four miles north east of Whalsay and form the easternmost part of Scotland, lying only 320Â km from Norway.
Outer Solar System The outer Solar System (as opposed to the outer planets) is that part of the Solar System which begins at roughly the orbit of Neptune and terminates at maximum orbit distance, approximately one light year from the sun in terms of orbital measurements. The environment of the whole Solar System is also composed of the Solar Wind which, in this outermost region of the solar system, is the heliopause where the Solar Wind meets the Interstellar Medium- especially the Local Interstellar Medium, aka LISM.
Outer trench swell The outer trench swell or outer rise is a subtle ridge on the seafloor near an oceanic trench, where a descending plate begins to flex and fault in preparation for its descent into the mantle at a subduction zone. The lithosphere is bent upwards by plate stresses, and is not in isostatic equilibrium.
Outerbridge Crossing The Outerbridge Crossing is a cantilever bridge over the Arthur Kill connecting Perth Amboy, New Jersey with Staten Island, New York. Known locally as the "Outerbridge", it is part of a popular route on NY-440/NJ-440 from the south and west to New York City and Long Island.
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