outlier

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
    — Observing as an outlier from Scotland, Hynes sums up the industry problem: "The conversation we've had for this article is really about creating an environment in which better decisions can be taken, isn't it?
  2. An exception. figuratively
    — And in a world where police officers are mostly paired by species (zebras with zebras, hippos with hippos, etc.), Judy and Nick’s rare bunny/fox combo marks them as outliers.
  3. A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
  4. A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.

词形变化

outliers plural outlyer alternative,dated

词汇关系

反义词
inlier
衍生词
nonoutlier outlierness

词源

Etymology tree
English outlie
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English outlier
From outlie + -er.
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