statistic
pronunciation
How to pronounce statistic in British English:
UK [stəˈtɪstɪk]
How to pronounce statistic in American English:
US [stəˈtɪstɪk]
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- Noun:
- a datum that can be represented numerically
Word Origin
- statistic
- statistic: [18] The term statistics [18] etymologically denotes the ‘science of the state’. It comes from statisticus ‘of state affairs’, a modern Latin coinage based on classical Latin status (source of English state). It was the 18thcentury German political scientist Aschenwall who brought it (in German statistisch) into general usage, in the specific sense ‘of the collection and evaluation of data (particularly numerical data) relating to the study of the state and its functions and institutions’. By the 1830s it had broadened out into its modern general sense. English acquired the word from German.=> state
- statistic (n.)
- 1852, "one numerical statistic," see statistics. From 1939 in reference to a person (considered as nothing more than an example of some measured quantity).
Example
- 1. Talk to a labour mp in parliament and you may be treated to a statistic about the tube line that runs under the building .
- 2. Rarely can a single statistic have been grasped so desperately .
- 3. I 've heard this statistic multiple times at ntc youtube is the second largest search engine next to google .
- 4. However , it did allow me to calculate an important and worrying new statistic .
- 5. In fact and such a statistic is rare for china it imports more cars than it exports .