utgående

Utgående is a Scandinavian adjective meaning moving outward or leaving a place. It is used to describe something that departs from a system, organization, or location, or something that is sent from a source to a destination. In Bokmål Norwegian the standard form is utgående; in Nynorsk the form is utgåande. The word is closely related to the English term “outgoing” and contrasts with innkommende or innkommande for items that arrive.

In everyday use, utgående appears in postal, administrative, and technical contexts. Utgående post or utgående brev refers to mail that has been sent from an office. In information technology and telecommunications, it is used for outbound items such as utgående e-post (outgoing email) and utgående trafikk (outbound network traffic). In corporate IT settings you may encounter phrases like utgående e-postserver (outgoing mail server) or utgående forespørsler (outgoing requests).

In contrast, innkommende refers to items that arrive or come into a system, such as innkommende post or innkommende trafikk. The term is widely used across public administration, logistics, and IT, and appears in documentation, configuration settings, and monitoring dashboards to distinguish between outbound and inbound flows.

See also: innkommende; outbound and inbound are common translations in English usage, while equivalents may vary by language and context.