Usually means: Data point deviating from norm.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word outlier:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. outlier: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. outlier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. outlier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. outlier: Collins English Dictionary
  5. outlier: Vocabulary.com
  6. Outlier, outlier: Wordnik
  7. outlier: Wiktionary
  8. outlier: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. outlier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. outlier: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Outlier, outlier: Dictionary.com
  12. Outlier (album), Outlier (statistics), Outlier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Outlier: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. outlier: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. outlier: Rhymezone
  16. Outlier: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. outlier: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. outlier: Free Dictionary
  19. outlier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. outlier: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outlier: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. outlier: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Outlier: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. outlier: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. Statistics (No longer online)
  4. Outlier: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Outlier: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (outlier)

noun:  A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
noun:  An exception.
noun:  (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
noun:  (statistics) 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.

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