outlier

Plural: outliers

Noun

• Something that is situated away from or is different from a main body.
• a person who lives away from his place of work
• an extreme deviation from the mean
• A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
• An exception.
• A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
• A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.

Examples

• Her strategy, an OUTLIER among traditional Scrabble tactics, often led to surprising victories.

Antonyms

inlier