"outer shape" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used to describe the physical appearance or form of something. Example: The outer shape of the building was a perfect square, with tall windows lining the facade.
The outer shape was inverse conical, but, because no specimens remain, the contour of the bore is unknown.
The Dream Chaser design keeps the exact outer shape from the HL-20 — a decision that allows Sierra Nevada to take advantage of years of wind tunnel tests that Langley had performed — while modifying the design within.
The lead author, Karen L. Baab, an anthropologist at Stony Brook University on Long Island, said the findings provided the most precise and comprehensive measurements to date of outer shape — every ridge and groove, every lump and bump — of the H. floresiensis cranium.
All marks had the same outer shape.
Moreover, the outer shape of the liquid jet is similar at all mass flow rates.
The outer shape of the breast and abnormalities are modeled with geometric functions.
The lipid distribution is computed by algorithms working on the outer shapes of the molecules.
Aerodynamic Design deals with the development of outer shapes of an aircraft, optimizing for its performance, handling qualities and loads.
Various sizes and dimensions of nanoflakes with very regular hexagonal outer shapes and smooth surfaces were obtained by using different tungsten oxide nanorods such as W18O49 and WO3 as precursors.
In this review, we give a brief survey of recent works focusing on the assembly and applications of chiral metal organic convex polyhedra with well-defined three-dimensional (3D) outer shapes and inner cavities, including a few examples of chiral MOCs in other configurations.
Figure 8 describes the effect of extreme inner and outer shapes of sections visualized with generated model sections.
