adj
Meaning 1
Alternative form of statistical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Standard Lemma guide
statistic
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/
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CMU ARPABET: S T AH0 T IH1 S T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A single item in a statistical study.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
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noun
Meaning 4
A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.
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verb
Meaning 5
To analyze or describe using statistics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To cite or calculate statistics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To comprise (as statistics)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 8
a datum that can be represented numerically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: datum, data point
Narrower terms: average, norm, demographic, deviation, moment, nonparametric statistic, distribution free statistic, parametric statistic, time series, vital statistics
History
Etymology
Back-formation from statistics.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: اِحْصَائِيَّة (iḥṣāʔiyya) — single item of a statistical study
- Finnish: tilastotieto — single item of a statistical study
- French: statistique — single item of a statistical study
- Hebrew: סטטיסטיקת (statistiket) — single item of a statistical study
- Italian: statistica — single item of a statistical study
- Kazakh: санақ (sanaq) — single item of a statistical study
- Portuguese: estatística — single item of a statistical study
- Spanish: estadística — single item of a statistical study
- Swahili: takwimu — single item of a statistical study
- Finnish: tunnusluku — quantity calculated from the data in a sample
- Finnish: tilastotieto — quantity calculated from the data in a sample
- Tagalog: himalak — quantity calculated from the data in a sample
- Finnish: tilastotieto — something reduced to an item in a statistic
Real reading context