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anomalía — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • anomaly noun Something that deviates from what is normal or expected; an irregularity.
  • fluke noun A lucky, accidental success unlikely to happen again.
  • 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

anomalía is used for these senses in English:

  • fluke A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.
  • 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.

fluke — full definition

  1. noun A lucky, accidental success unlikely to happen again.
  2. noun A parasitic flatworm.

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