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noun

Outlier n.

One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.

That which lies, or is, away from the main body.

(Geol.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.

(Statistics) A datum that lies significantly beyond the main cluster of data points on a graph or diagram; suggestive of an error in measurement.

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Etymology of 'Outlier'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outlier" Quotes from Famous Books

... much difficulty distinguished "from ordinary stratification planes, like which they have been plicated, faulted, and denuded. Here and there, as a result of denudation, a portion of one of them appears capping a hilltop. One almost refuses to believe that the little outlier on the summit does not lie normally on the rocks below it, but on a nearly horizontal fault by which it has been moved into ...

— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price

... Loadstone Rock, of romance, it yielded nothing intimately connected with the Arthurian Legend itself at first, and such connection as succeeded seems pretty certainly[31] to be that of which Percevale is the hero, and an outlier, not an integral part. But either the same genius (as one would fain hope) as that which devised the profane romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, or another, further grafted or inarched the sacred romance ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

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