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Definition of Outlier
1. Noun. A person who lives away from his place of work.
2. Noun. An extreme deviation from the mean.
Definition of Outlier
1. n. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.
Definition of Outlier
1. Noun. A person or thing away from others or outside its proper place. ¹
2. Noun. (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion. ¹
3. Noun. (statistics) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outlier
1. an outlying area or portion [n -S]
Medical Definition of Outlier
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1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.
2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlier
Literary usage of Outlier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"The rocks of which an outlier is composed may all belong to one and the same ...
An Inlier is the converse of an outlier, and consists of rocks which are ..."
2. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist, Wisconsin Geological Survey (1877)
"The first mentioned outlier of the last group still preserves on its exposed
surface the ... 45° W. The rock of all these outcrops is a hard, outlier, ..."
3. OECD Economic Surveys: Slovak Republic by OECD Staff (2005)
"Education spending: will Slovakia remain an outlier? Slovakia lags most other
OECD countries in the level and composition of public and private resources ..."
4. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the by American Bible Society (1870)
"Behold, I will bring them from the north country, mid outlier them from the coasts
of the .... outlier ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1877)
"By GH KINAHAN, MRIA, &c. [Read December 8, 1875.] THE outlier of ... and the
following will account for the present position of the outlier. ..."
6. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Spec, outlier, nonmember, extern, exoteric; see FOREIGNER. outstrip, rt
pass (contextual); spec, distance, outdistance (emphatic for "distance"), ..."
7. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"outlier and Inlier.—Tilting and bending, combined with subsequent denudation,
... In an outlier the detached mass is surrounded on all tides by beds ..."
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