uitloper — meaning in English

English meaning

• offshoot noun Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
• outlier noun A data point that sits far away from the rest of a set of results, and which may signal a real extreme case or a measurement error.

Senses

uitloper is used for these senses in English:

• offshoot Something which develops from something else.
• outlier (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
• stolon (botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.

offshoot — full definition

1. noun Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
2. noun Something which develops from something else.

outlier — full definition

1. noun A data point that sits far away from the rest of a set of results, and which may signal a real extreme case or a measurement error.
2. noun A person or thing that stands markedly apart from the others in a group.
3. noun In geology, an isolated area of younger rock surrounded by older rock, separated from the main body by erosion.

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