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UK
/ˈaʊtlˌaɪə/
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[ US /ˈaʊtɫaɪɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊtɫaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
- an extreme deviation from the mean
- a person who lives away from his place of work
How To Use outlier In A Sentence
- Four miles to the north-east is the island of Boreray and its atmospheric outliers: the whitewashed tooth-like 564 ft Stac Lee and its more northern neighbour, Stac an Armin.
- Other outliers in the east take it out across the Bahamas.
- Circles show “outliers”, points which are further from the quartile than the size of the IQR length of the whiskers. Solar Proxies « Climate Audit
- The dark horizontal line is the median, the notches represent the 95% confidence intervals on the medians, the box heights show the interquartile ranges, the whiskers show the data extent, and the circles are outliers. Willis E on Hansen and Model Reliability « Climate Audit
- Today, America is an outlier among industrial nations.
- The first is that on May 9, there was what is called an "outlier" poll by the Associated Press/GfK which put Obama's approval at a stratospheric 60 percent. Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- May, 2011
- The Black Hills are an outlier of the Middle Rockies and share with them a montane climate, hydrography, and land use pattern. Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)
- About 65,000 pairs - nearly the entire world population - nest on Disappointment Island, a rugged outlier.
- San Francisco officials knew they were outliers in the national debate.
- Answer: it works for their worldly success, even though they are outliers of the spirit of the Christian church, corrupters of its original intent, and meany losers, lining up the other 'fraidy cats behind them. Stephanie Sandberg: God On The Spoon