poikkeus — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anomaly noun Something that deviates from what is normal or expected; an irregularity.
- deviant adj Different from what is normal or expected, especially in a way society disapproves of.
- exception noun Someone or something left out of a general rule or statement.
- 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
poikkeus is used for these senses in English:
- anomaly A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
- anomaly Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
- anomaly (dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
- deviant A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
- exception (programming) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
- outlier (statistics) 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.
deviant — full definition
- adj Different from what is normal or expected, especially in a way society disapproves of.
- noun A person whose behaviour clearly breaks accepted social norms.