outlier
pronunciation
How to pronounce outlier in British English:
UK [ˈaʊtˌlaɪə]
How to pronounce outlier in American English:
US [ˈaʊtlaɪər]
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- Noun:
- a person who lives away from his place of work
- an extreme deviation from the mean
Word Origin
- outlier (n.)
- c. 1600, "stone quarried and removed but left unused," from out + lie (v.2). Transferred meaning "outsider" is recorded from 1680s; "anything detached from its main body" is from 1849; geological sense is from 1833.
Example
- 1. Britain , as ever , is an outlier .
- 2. And britain is often an outlier .
- 3. Britain is that happy outlier .
- 4. I didn 't panic or give up . Like any good outlier , I simply switched to the full court press .
- 5. In groups it 's often the non-expert , the outlier , or the person who isn 't in charge who has the most interesting idea .