Outro Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Noun
    • 1.2.1 Antonyms
• 2 Galician
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Determiner
    • 2.2.1 Usage notes
• 3 Portuguese
  • 3.1 Etymology
  • 3.2 Pronoun

English

Etymology

Analogy with intro, using out as the opposite of in.

Noun

outro (plural outros)

1. (informal) In music, a portion of music at the end of a song; like an intro, but at the end instead of the beginning.
   • 1977, Claude Hall, Barbara Hall, This business of radio programming

     ...talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning...

   • 1992, Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett, Practical recording techniques

     Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.

   • 2009, 24 September, Jude Rogers in The Guardian, The trouble with remastered records

     But then something happens on I Want You (She's So Heavy), two minutes into the song's intense outro, when a cloud of white noise comes in,...

2. (informal) The closing sequence at the end of a video game, demoscene demo, etc.
   • 2007, Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser, Learning ActionScript 3.0: a beginner's guide

     Having gone through the intro and stopped, the next click plays the outro of the current section and then hits the following script at the end of the outro animation:

Antonyms

• intro

Galician

Etymology

From Latin alterum. Compare Spanish otro and French autre

Determiner

outro m. (feminine outra, masculine plural outros, feminine plural outras)

1. other, another

Usage notes

All forms of outro contract when used following the contractions de (“of, from”) or en (“in”). So de outro contracts to doutro, and en outras contacts to noutras.

Portuguese

Etymology

Compare Spanish otro and French autre

Pronoun

outro

1. other
2. another

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