Outlier

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outlier \Out"li`er\, n.
     1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or
        estate, is. --Bentley.
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     2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body.


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     3. (Geol.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or
        beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by
        denudation.
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     4. (Statistics) A datum that lies significantly beyond the
        main cluster of data points on a graph or diagram; --
        suggestive of an error in measurement.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outlier
       n 1: a person who lives away from his place of work
       2: an extreme deviation from the mean