outlier
/ˈaʊtˌlaɪər/
noun
- A person or thing that is different from the others in a group, often in a surprising or unusual way.
- The small startup was an outlier in an industry dominated by huge corporations.
- In a class of quiet students, she was an outlier who always asked bold questions.
- His artistic style was an outlier compared to the traditional painters of his time.
- In statistics, a value that is far away from most other values in a set of data.
- When calculating the average, we removed the outlier to get a more accurate result.
- The researcher noted that the outlier might indicate a measurement error.
- The data showed one outlier that was much higher than the rest of the scores.