noun
- a person or thing that is different from or separate from the main group
- a data point that is significantly different from other values in a dataset
Usage: statistics; mathematics
Examples
- The mansion was an outlier in the modest neighborhood.
- His test score was an outlier compared to his usual performance.
- The statistician removed the outliers from the data analysis.
- She felt like an outlier at the corporate meeting.
- The extremely high temperature reading was considered an outlier.
- Among the conservative voters, he was clearly an outlier.
- The researcher identified several outliers in the survey results.