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   outlier

   /ˈaʊtˌlʌɪə/

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system: "a western outlier in the Andaman archipelago"
   • ▪ a person or thing differing from all other members of a particular group or set: "an outlier in Faulkner's body of work"
   • ▪ a younger rock formation isolated among older rocks: "the Jurassic outlier west of Carlisle"
   • ▪ a data point on a graph or in a set of results that is very much bigger or smaller than the next nearest data point.

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