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Definition of outlier noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

outlier

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/ˈaʊtlaɪə(r)/
 
/ˈaʊtlaɪər/
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  1. a person or thing that is different from or in a position away from others in the group
    • They are corporate outliers, people who just don't fit into the culture of the company.
  2. (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
    • If the outliers are removed from the data, the overall results do change significantly.
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