An extreme deviation from the mean

Usage examples of outlier.

One was the barracks for outliers and transient members of the Finest, and one was a long stable.

All of the Finest were bundled up in their riding jackets, and the outliers wrapped themselves in blankets as well.

Yelena had drawn up the Finest and the outliers behind me in a rough line.

I was assured they were the hottest sellers and especially popular with tourists who would be heading back into the outlier worlds.

The outlier wolf walked with an arrogant swagger as if he were a One of Ones, not a packless, isolated male.

Further to the west were scattered small communities of Polynesians, called the Polynesian outliers, including Ontong Java, Tikopia, Rennell and Bellona, Nukumanu, Kapingamarangi.

A scattering of pine trees marched along the stony footslopes of this Rocky Mountain outlier, joined here and there by clumps of aspen.

I think there is some evidence, or at least a theory, that these outliers traded back and forth with the great-house people, maybe came into Chaco for their religious ceremonials.

About midnight we were right into the region of snow and ice, not the actual polar region of the planet, as I afterwards guessed, but one of those long outliers which follow the course of the broad waterways almost into fertile regions, and the cold, though intense, was somewhat modified by the complete stillness of the air.

AAMODT works for the Social Security Administration, and recently moved back to Minnesota from Maryland, He lives with his wife, two daughters, a cat, and a dog in the far northern outliers of Minneapolis.

Weldein took a heaping measure, as did the young outlier beside him, before the dish reached me.

Up the Goulet lay the reefs of the Little Girls, with their outlier, Pollux Reef, and beyond the Little Girls, in the outer roadstead, lay the French navy at anchor, forced to tolerate this constant invigilation because of the superior might of the Channel Fleet waiting outside, just over the horizon.

From the buildings a new road drove south and east, into the Inyo range, more barren and bitter than the Sierras, the outliers of deserts as stark as any on Earth.

There were various possibilitiesit was one of the largest in the observable Universe, and it resided in an area with an anomalously low density of dark matterbut whatever the explanation, it was an outlier at the far end of the distribution of possible evolutionary paths, and therefore so too was life.

In backwaters and outliers like the Relay Stations, where they are so much in awe of the Fair Folk that they will not name them, or even speak of them aloud in company, many folk still think themselves noble if they show no passion.