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"OUTLIERS" is a plural of: outlier. |
Date "OUTLIERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mathematics | In a sample of n observations it is possible for a limited number to be so far separated in value from the remainder that they give rise to the question whether they are not from a different population, or that the sampling technique is at fault. Such values are called outliers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Once the filtering process has eliminated outliers, a final list of companies included in the global averages is compiled. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "OUTLIERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "OUTLIERS" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
outliers | 16 |
statistical outliers | 3 |
outliers statistics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OUTLIERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ekstreme observationer, afvigende værdier, afvigende observationer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitschieters (spikes), uitbijters, extreme waarnemingen, afzwaaiers. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vieraat havainnot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | observations extrêmes aberrantes, observations extrêmes, observations aberrantes, valeurs extrêmes, valeurs aberrantes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ausreißer (bolter, eloper, outlier, runaway, runaways, stray bullet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρεκτρεπόμενη τιμή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | outliers, valori estremi (extreme values), valori erratici, valori abnormi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | outliersay valores exteriores. (various references) valores extremos (extreme values). (various references) outliers, utböling (outcast), avvikande värden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"OUTLIERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otlier, Outler, outliar, outlyer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: estriol, loiters, lousier, lustier, outlier, outlies, ruliest, rutiles, soilure, stourie, toilers, troilus. | |
-2 letters: lister, liters, litres, loiter, lories, louies, luster, lustre, oilers, oriels, ostler, ouster, outers, outlie, relist, reoils, result, routes, rustle, rutile, solute, sortie, souter, sterol, stoure, suiter, suitor, sutler, tilers, toiler, toiles, tories, tousle, triols, triose, ulster. | |
-3 letters: etuis, euros, ileus. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fluorites, outliners, outlivers, poultries, troiluses. | |
+2 letters: boilersuit, courtliest, irresolute, locutories, outlawries, pyrolusite, resolution, sclerotium, staurolite, tendrilous, trialogues, turophiles, ureotelism. | |
+3 letters: boilersuits, courtliness, deleterious, desultorily, elucidators, elutriators, fluoridates, fluorinates, lactiferous, laureations, multicourse, multisource, neurologist, neutrophils, obtrusively, outdelivers, outfielders, outglitters, protrusible, pyrolusites, quatrefoils, regulations, resolutions, revolutions, righteously, southerlies, sporulative, staurolites, superpolite, terricolous, tourmalines, ulcerations, ureotelisms, uricotelism, voluntaries. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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