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outpost

ˈaʊtˌpoʊst
WordNet
In the attack on Menin, the French soldier Pierre Durand alone overpowers an outpost of the Austrians, November 21, 1796. Numbered top right: P X.
In the attack on Menin, the French soldier Pierre Durand alone overpowers an outpost of the Austrians, November 21, 1796. Numbered top right: P X.
  1. (n) outpost
    a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
  2. (n) outpost
    a settlement on the frontier of civilization
  3. (n) outpost
    a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
Illustrations
Cossack outpost in 1813. Four Cossacks around a campfire, two on horseback with lances, one drinks a glass.
Cossack outpost in 1813
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Outpost
    (Mil) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) outpost
    A post or station outside of the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army: often used figuratively.
  2. (n) outpost
    The soldier or soldiers placed at such post or station.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Outpost
    owt′pōst a post or station beyond the main body of an army: the troops placed there.
Quotations
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
George Ellery Hale
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...
George Ellery Hale
Usage in the news

'Nike Outpost ' is open again. mammothtimes.com

The crew inside the Nike Outpost . mammothtimes.com

The runners are back, the Olympics are on, and the Nike Outpost is open. mammothtimes.com

Peace Love World has opened another outpost in Miami making it the 6th retail store. miami.com

An embattled outpost where the US military trains Afghan soldiers. pbs.org

NASA considers outpost beyond moon's far side. msnbc.msn.com

Franklin Park Research Outpost . thephoenix.com

Vertigo operates one Outpost Saloon in Las Vegas. lvrj.com

Manned moon outpost could be NASA's next big mission. seattlepi.com

Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade are in the final months of their mission in Combat Outpost Jaghatu, which will likely close later this year. ashingtonpost.com

A war nears its end in remote Afghan outpost . ashingtonpost.com

The Bimini Big Game Club in the Bahamas will be reopening as the Guy Harvey Outpost Resort and Marina the weekend of the 24th. yachtingmagazine.com

Guy Harvey Outpost Resort and Marina. yachtingmagazine.com

Photo by Guy Harvey Outpost Resort and Marina. yachtingmagazine.com

What is Outpost Sunsport's Website. k99.com

Usage in scientific papers

Imagine that some external party, an abstract policeman is monitoring the events from his outpost based on the ground or the laboratory reference frame.
The velocity translation in the game of "Life"

Lee, First Colonization of a Spectral Outpost in Random Matrix Theory, Constr.
Critical asymptotic behavior for the Korteweg-de Vries equation and in random matrix theory

Any view of the Solar System that sees Pluto or 2003 UB313 as tiny lonely outposts on the outer edge, or Ceres as the sole mini-planet between Mars and Jupiter, misses one of the more important points about the architecture of the Solar System and the importance of its belts.
Planetesimals To Brown Dwarfs: What is a Planet?

It is therefore not surprising to see how far an outpost this question has reached in subsequent geometric developments and how strong a role it has played in various other areas, such as differential geometry and approximation theory (see, for example, [Se3], [FW] and [PW]).
Homaloidal hypersurfaces and hypersurfaces with vanishing Hessian

Lee, First colonization of a spectral outpost in random matrix theory, Constr.
Painlev\'e kernels in Hermitian matrix models

Usage in literature

I couldn't sleep, in this camp without watch or outposts; and for the last quarter of an hour, I fancy I've been hearing noises. "The Young Franc Tireurs" by G. A. Henty

His outposts almost touched those of McClellan. "The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston

We had to find outposts (Dorsets and Norfolks) that night, covering a huge bit of country. "The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade" by Edward Lord Gleichen

I was sent out to take the party seen from our outposts. "Crown and Sceptre" by George Manville Fenn

We left this last outpost of the Scotch settlements with pleasure. "Acadia" by Frederic S. Cozzens

There was a corporal in Haiti, on outpost, with half a dozen loyal natives acting as policemen with him. "The U-boat hunters" by James B. Connolly

As the outposts moved forward they encountered a small boy on a pony, who swung his cap at them gayly as he rode. "Special Messenger" by Robert W. Chambers

Their outposts faced those of the French with an interval of some two hundred yards between them. "A Girl of the Commune" by George Alfred Henty

The only battle of significance in the past week had been the defense of an Earth outpost called Bennington IV. "The Highest Treason" by Randall Garrett

Montcalm, hastening to Quebec, pushed on the defences of the city and its outposts vigorously. "The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation" by Charles Roger

Usage in poetry
Green-turfed, flower-sown, the last outpost
Of summer upon the dreary coast,
With its gardens small and spare,
Sad in the frosty air.
"The stern, swift years stride onward,
As a battle column will range,
And ever in front their outposts,
With their miracles of change.
CHRYSANTHUS.
Though the outposts of the soul,
The weak heart, by thee be captured;
Not so will the Understanding,
The strong warden who doth guard it.
For presently, O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-
camps of green;
But we need not provide for outposts, nor word for the countersign,
Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.
The trumpet's challenge dire
Would hush the angelic choir,
The outpost's oath replace the Shepherd's vow;
No frankincense or myrrh
Would there be brought to her,
For Wise Men kneel no more—Kings are not humble now.
They oped the gates, and outward in a great rush did they break.
And all the outposts of the Moor beheld them coming on,
And back unto the army forthwith they got them gone.
What haste there was among the Moors! To arm they turned them back.