Definition of "inboard" [in•board]

• Nautical Within the hull or toward the center of a vessel. (adjective)
• Relatively close to the fuselage of an aircraft: the inboard engines. (adjective)
• Nautical A motor attached to the inside of the hull of a boat. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""Aviation Week," which is a weekly journal here in the United States reporting today that air force tracking, ground-based air force tracking cameras, at about 60 seconds before the plane exploded -- in other words when it was still largely intact in the skies over Arizona and going into Texas, that these cameras showed serious structural damage to the inboard, what's called the inboard leading edge of the left wing."
• "And then you have the nose gear up in front inboard, meaning it's on the -- not the outside tire."
• "Having visual experiences is something that apparently happens inboard of my eyes, somewhere in between my eyes and my voice when I tell you what I see.4"