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outlier

Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtlʌɪə/

Definition of outlier

noun

  • a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system:a western outlier in the Andaman archipelago
  • Geology a younger rock formation isolated among older rocks: the Jurassic outlier west of Carlisle
  • Statistics a data point on a graph or in a set of results that is very much bigger or smaller than the next nearest data point.

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