something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands: The small factory was an outlier, and unproductive, so the corporation sold it off to private owners who were able to make it profitable.
someone who stands apart from others of his or her group, as by differing behavior, beliefs, or religious practices: scientists who are outliers in their views on climate change.
Statistics.
an observation that is well outside of the expected range of values in a study or experiment, and which is often discarded from the data set: Experience with a variety of data-reduction problems has led to several strategies for dealing with outliers in data sets.
a person whose abilities, achievements, etc., lie outside the range of statistical probability.
Geology. a part of a formation left detached through the removal of surrounding parts by erosion.Compare inlier.
Obsolete. a person residing outside the place of his or her business, duty, etc.
This database should cover design projects in all sectors and domains, not just those in machine learning, and explicitly acknowledge absences and outliers.
Participation-washing could be the next dangerous fad in machine learning|Amy Nordrum|August 25, 2020|MIT Technology Review
First off, they are an outlier among this year’s top defenses.
The Raptors’ Defense Is Almost Never The Same, But It’s Always Really Good|Jared Dubin|August 17, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Put another way, states that are outliers based on some combination of the variables listed above tend to be harder to predict.
How FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 Presidential Forecast Works — And What’s Different Because Of COVID-19|Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 12, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
More recently, machine-learning based approaches try to identify patterns of normal activity and raise flags only when outliers are detected.
The pandemic has changed how criminals hide their cash—and AI tools are trying to sniff it out|Will Heaven|August 6, 2020|MIT Technology Review
This week was also a good reminder that outliers can occur in either direction.
Yes, Biden Has A Big Lead, But It’s Probably Not 15 Points|Nathaniel Rakich (nathaniel.rakich@fivethirtyeight.com)|July 16, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
But Florida is kind of an outlier, because culturally, only the northern half of Florida is Dixie.
Dems, It’s Time to Dump Dixie|Michael Tomasky|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Egeland is something of an outlier among the worldwide community of humanitarians because he says this sort of thing out loud.
Why Humanitarians Talk to ISIS|Joshua Hersh|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Actually, the United States is an outlier among democracies in granting such generous free speech guarantees.
Should Neo-Nazis Be Allowed Free Speech?|Thane Rosenbaum|January 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In comparison to other NWO conspiracy theorists, experts say Ciancia is an outlier.
The Evolution of the ‘New World Order’|Lizzie Crocker|November 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Said Fidas: “ExxonMobil remains a significant holdout with respect to LGBT equality and in many ways an outlier.”
Walmart’s New Embrace of Gay Employees a Sign of Corporate Shift|Daniel Gross|August 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Miraculously, he reached the outlier skirmish without being spotted.
Makers|Cory Doctorow
It was Won-tolla, the Outlier, and he said never a word, but continued his horrible sport beside the dholes.
The Second Jungle Book|Rudyard Kipling
The outlier of the group once created served as a nucleus for fresh accumulations.
Man and His Migrations|R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
We first visited together the outlier of the Weald at Linksfield.
The Cruise of the Betsey|Hugh Miller
"Eat," said Akela, rising up from the meat Mowgli had brought him, and the Outlier flung himself on it.
The Second Jungle Book|Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for outlier
outlier
/ (ˈaʊtˌlaɪə) /
noun
an outcrop of rocks that is entirely surrounded by older rocks
a person, thing, or part situated away from a main or related body
a person who lives away from his place of work, duty, etc
statisticsa point in a sample widely separated from the main cluster of points in the sampleSee scatter diagram