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n. One whose domicile lies at an appreciable distance from his or her place of business.

n. A value far from most others in a set of data: "Outliers make statistical analyses difficult” ( Harvey Motulsky).

n. Geology A portion of stratified rock separated from a main formation by erosion.

n. A person or thing away from others or outside its proper place.

n. A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.

n. 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.

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

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

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

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

n. One who does not reside in the place with which his office or duty connects him.

n. An outsider.

n. A part lying without or beyond the main body; an isolated or outlying part; specifically, in geology, a part of a stratum or group of strata, or a mass of rock of any kind, which has been left behind while that part of the formation by which it was originally surrounded, and to which it belonged, has been removed by denudation.

n. In zoology, that which is outlying, subtypical, or aberrant, as a genus or family of animals.

n. a person who lives away from his place of work

n. an extreme deviation from the mean

"The first is that on May 9, there was what is called an "outlier" poll by the Associated Press/GfK which put Obama's approval at a stratospheric 60 percent."

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