Definition of outlier
1 : a person whose residence and place of business are at a distance His house was a place of refuge for outliers.
2 : something (such as a geological feature) that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body The island is an outlier on the southeast side of the archipelago.
3 : a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample Values that are outliers give disproportionate weight to larger over smaller values.
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Recent Examples of outlier from the Web
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Even compared with the three other Florida counties on the list of 16, Duval County is an outlier.
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Rowe's racially motivated violence was far from an outlier over the past year that Trump has occupied the national stage.
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Servheen said no: The bears that attack humans are the outliers.
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There have been three 0-0 draws and only two games with more than three goals (which made Wednesday’s 3-3 tie between Hungary and Portugal an outlier).
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The Braves’ winning percentage is .240, an outlier that would come in even lower than the 1962 Mets’ standard of futility.
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The 101 vino courses are new for spring and will focus on the outlier output from popular wine-growing regions, i.e., what Southwest France is doing outside Bordeaux.
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In a music industry that still hasn’t quite found homeostasis, the unexplained growth of the outlier medium continues to bewilder analysts and critics.
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Wills is an outlier among liberal Catholics, most of whom tend to be more modest and gradualist, and less inclined to take premises to their extreme.
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First Known Use of outlier
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