Meaning & use
outlier
A person, thing, or data point that differs markedly from the rest of a group or set.
See it in a sentence
One student's test score was such an outlier that the teacher rechecked it for errors.
Statisticians often exclude outliers before calculating an average, since a single extreme value can distort it.
A note on using this word
Outlier is common in statistics for an unusual data point, but it is also used generally for anyone or anything that stands apart from a group.
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Words with an opposite meaning
normtypical case
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