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词汇 outlier
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Definition of outlier in English:

outlier

noun ˈaʊtlʌɪəˈaʊtˌlaɪər
  • 1A person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system.

    在外面的人,与主体分开的人;与主体分开的物

    a western outlier in the Andaman archipelago
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In each case, a 150-meter-long corridor connected the central plot to one outlier, while the others remained isolated.
    • The U.S., Australia, and Germany are the outliers.
    • Subsequent migrants, finding that the big islands were occupied, settled on the outlying islands, most of which are coral outliers.
    • Four miles to the north-east is the island of Boreray and its atmospheric outliers: the whitewashed tooth-like 564 ft Stac Lee and its more northern neighbour, Stac an Armin.
    • The Reivers, however, is an outlier in Faulkner's body of work.
    • In my experience, when we were writing a case that might be considered an outlier, we knew what we were doing.
    • There are indeed many places where you can still hear Welsh spoken daily, particularly in rural west, central and northern Wales, one of its heartlands being the western outliers of Snowdon down to Bangor and on to Anglesey.
    • Something ugly has happened here since we changed from being an infant republic to becoming an economic outlier of finance capital.
    • It is perhaps 200 feet high, something of a pimple outlier of the main range but it contained an abandoned, flooded quarry which was, when required, redolent of the Lake District books.
    • San Francisco officials knew they were outliers in the national debate.
    • About 65,000 pairs - nearly the entire world population - nest on Disappointment Island, a rugged outlier.
    • Linguistically (and in some ways genetically, although there has been more mixing in this regard) the Basques are a complete outlier.
    • ‘If we are still an outlier next year we will have failed,’ he said.
    • Other outliers in the east take it out across the Bahamas.
    • The collapse of Easter Island was only one - an outlier, to be sure - of a set of related but independent settlements in Polynesia.
    • I predicted a majority of 25, so I'm the outlier at the moment.
    • Perhaps he was just feeling idle, relaxed and de-stressed - like everyone else who makes it to this most wistful and romantic of outliers.
    1. 1.1 A person or thing differing from all other members of a particular group or set.
      an outlier in Faulkner's body of work
      then there are the corporate outliers, people who just don't fit into the culture of the company
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If we just look at his performance, 2010 was the outlier in his career, not the standard.
      • In groups it's often the non-expert, the outlier, or the person who isn't in charge who has the most interesting idea.
      • I predicted a majority of 25, so I'm the outlier at the moment.
      • Today, America is an outlier among industrial nations.
      • San Francisco officials knew they were outliers in the national debate.
      • A property manager can quickly identify the outliers in their portfolio to target for investment.
      • I think that Einstein is really an outlier, he's an anomaly.
      • He is widely regarded in the intelligence community as an outlier, as a man who always goes for the worst-case scenario and sometimes overlooks less alarming or at least ambiguous signs.
      • As a lifelong outlier (especially in the eyes of my family), I can relate to the situation.
      • There are a few outliers who actually don't want TV, but it seems as though most people who don't have a TV are just trying to avoid the fee.
      • Only Georgia has a median income above $45,000, making it the outlier in the south, along with Texas.
      • There will always be some minority who will find some ax to grind, but these are the outliers.
      • Granted this meeting was not really my field: I was an outlier and I knew it.
      • The poll could be an outlier and we'll have a better idea of the state of play when the next poll is published tonight.
      • The outliers get the headlines, the seeming majority, who are doing the job to which they were elected, do not make the news.
      • She, like many of my friends, seems to labor under the assumption that I am an outlier, that I am unusually frustrated with the scientific system the way it exists in this country right now.
      • We need to look past the figureheads of the genre, and focus on brilliant outliers.
      • They were an outlier in the predominantly indie/rock line-up.
    2. 1.2Geology A younger rock formation isolated among older rocks.
      〔地质〕外露层
      the Jurassic outlier west of Carlisle
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Equivalent levels were also examined in the mountain-top outliers of Domkirken.
      • These sediments, surrounded by older rocks, were originally called outliers.
      • The Great Glen and the Helmsdale faults, along which the Jurassic outliers of Eathie and Helmsdale, respectively, are found, show a complex history of movements.
      • Lily Fen is also unusual among southern outliers in that its surficial features are well developed.
      • Fault movements by which blocks of terrain move up or down relative to each other, as when horsts or grabens are formed, can also produce inliers and outliers.
    3. 1.3Statistics A data point on a graph or in a set of results that is very much bigger or smaller than the next nearest data point.
      〔统计〕异常值
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Interestingly, while this method is supposed to be relatively insensitive to outliers, the results do change significantly if the data point from 1992 is removed from the series.
      • Other approaches for dealing with outliers gave substantially similar results.
      • If you suspect that your results could be adversely affected by outliers, try thinking of a different way of obtaining them.
      • In such a system, attention is focused generally on the outliers who have poor results, with (in most cases) neither integrated analysis of the root cause nor any attempt to determine the processes of care that result in worse outcomes.
      • Results of tests of outliers and assumptions of normality, homogeneity of variance-covariance matrices, linearity, and multicollinearity were satisfactory.

Definition of outlier in US English:

outlier

nounˈaʊtˌlaɪərˈoutˌlīər
  • 1A person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system.

    在外面的人,与主体分开的人;与主体分开的物

    less accessible islands and outliers

    交通较为不便的岛屿和边远外地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Four miles to the north-east is the island of Boreray and its atmospheric outliers: the whitewashed tooth-like 564 ft Stac Lee and its more northern neighbour, Stac an Armin.
    • It is perhaps 200 feet high, something of a pimple outlier of the main range but it contained an abandoned, flooded quarry which was, when required, redolent of the Lake District books.
    • Other outliers in the east take it out across the Bahamas.
    • The Reivers, however, is an outlier in Faulkner's body of work.
    • ‘If we are still an outlier next year we will have failed,’ he said.
    • San Francisco officials knew they were outliers in the national debate.
    • There are indeed many places where you can still hear Welsh spoken daily, particularly in rural west, central and northern Wales, one of its heartlands being the western outliers of Snowdon down to Bangor and on to Anglesey.
    • About 65,000 pairs - nearly the entire world population - nest on Disappointment Island, a rugged outlier.
    • Something ugly has happened here since we changed from being an infant republic to becoming an economic outlier of finance capital.
    • The U.S., Australia, and Germany are the outliers.
    • In each case, a 150-meter-long corridor connected the central plot to one outlier, while the others remained isolated.
    • I predicted a majority of 25, so I'm the outlier at the moment.
    • In my experience, when we were writing a case that might be considered an outlier, we knew what we were doing.
    • The collapse of Easter Island was only one - an outlier, to be sure - of a set of related but independent settlements in Polynesia.
    • Subsequent migrants, finding that the big islands were occupied, settled on the outlying islands, most of which are coral outliers.
    • Linguistically (and in some ways genetically, although there has been more mixing in this regard) the Basques are a complete outlier.
    • Perhaps he was just feeling idle, relaxed and de-stressed - like everyone else who makes it to this most wistful and romantic of outliers.
    1. 1.1 A person or thing differing from all other members of a particular group or set.
      an outlier in Faulkner's body of work
      then there are the corporate outliers, people who just don't fit into the culture of the company
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If we just look at his performance, 2010 was the outlier in his career, not the standard.
      • There are a few outliers who actually don't want TV, but it seems as though most people who don't have a TV are just trying to avoid the fee.
      • I predicted a majority of 25, so I'm the outlier at the moment.
      • They were an outlier in the predominantly indie/rock line-up.
      • The poll could be an outlier and we'll have a better idea of the state of play when the next poll is published tonight.
      • Granted this meeting was not really my field: I was an outlier and I knew it.
      • He is widely regarded in the intelligence community as an outlier, as a man who always goes for the worst-case scenario and sometimes overlooks less alarming or at least ambiguous signs.
      • San Francisco officials knew they were outliers in the national debate.
      • Today, America is an outlier among industrial nations.
      • We need to look past the figureheads of the genre, and focus on brilliant outliers.
      • As a lifelong outlier (especially in the eyes of my family), I can relate to the situation.
      • There will always be some minority who will find some ax to grind, but these are the outliers.
      • The outliers get the headlines, the seeming majority, who are doing the job to which they were elected, do not make the news.
      • She, like many of my friends, seems to labor under the assumption that I am an outlier, that I am unusually frustrated with the scientific system the way it exists in this country right now.
      • In groups it's often the non-expert, the outlier, or the person who isn't in charge who has the most interesting idea.
      • Only Georgia has a median income above $45,000, making it the outlier in the south, along with Texas.
      • I think that Einstein is really an outlier, he's an anomaly.
      • A property manager can quickly identify the outliers in their portfolio to target for investment.
    2. 1.2Geology A younger rock formation isolated among older rocks.
      〔地质〕外露层
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Equivalent levels were also examined in the mountain-top outliers of Domkirken.
      • Fault movements by which blocks of terrain move up or down relative to each other, as when horsts or grabens are formed, can also produce inliers and outliers.
      • These sediments, surrounded by older rocks, were originally called outliers.
      • The Great Glen and the Helmsdale faults, along which the Jurassic outliers of Eathie and Helmsdale, respectively, are found, show a complex history of movements.
      • Lily Fen is also unusual among southern outliers in that its surficial features are well developed.
    3. 1.3Statistics A data point on a graph or in a set of results that is very much bigger or smaller than the next nearest data point.
      〔统计〕异常值
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Results of tests of outliers and assumptions of normality, homogeneity of variance-covariance matrices, linearity, and multicollinearity were satisfactory.
      • In such a system, attention is focused generally on the outliers who have poor results, with (in most cases) neither integrated analysis of the root cause nor any attempt to determine the processes of care that result in worse outcomes.
      • If you suspect that your results could be adversely affected by outliers, try thinking of a different way of obtaining them.
      • Interestingly, while this method is supposed to be relatively insensitive to outliers, the results do change significantly if the data point from 1992 is removed from the series.
      • Other approaches for dealing with outliers gave substantially similar results.
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