EGAVE

outlier

About 0.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
  2. noun An exception.
  3. noun A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
  4. noun A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.

Similar words

aberrant exception extreme flap outmost standout outstander outshiner something else extraordinarity

Often followed by

of in detection is and at on with can

Word family

outliers

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