Definition: "Outpicket" is a concept in the field of computer science, particularly in the context of programming languages. It refers to a special character used within certain programming languages to represent an "out-of-pipe" or "out-of-order execution." In other words, it represents the fact that the program should not execute any code after the point at which the outpicket is encountered. The term was introduced by the author of the Java programming language, Thomas H. Cormen in 1