Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A numerical datum.
- n. A numerical value, such as standard deviation or mean, that characterizes the sample or population from which it was derived.
- n. One viewed as a nameless item of statistical information: got laid off and became another statistic in the slumping economy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Statistical.
- n. Same as statistics.
- n. A statistical statement.
- n. A statistician.
Wiktionary
- adj. alternative spelling of statistical.
- n. A single item in a statistical study.
- n. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
- n. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to statistics.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a datum that can be represented numerically
Etymologies
- Back-formation from statistics. (Wiktionary)
- Ultimately from New Latin statisticus, of statecraft; see statistics. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Among medical doctors, the statistic is almost 75%.”
“JP: not to diminish your point but the statistic is actually “2/3 of corporations paid no income taxes for at least one year between 1996 and 2005.””
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“That weaselly separation of the source from the statistic is the kind of things students do when they are are making stuff up, or at least playing fast-and-loose with the figures.”
“Also, as for the 13% of Americans not blaming Bush – I wonder what the statistic is among Southern states affected by the storm.”
“The median-household-income statistic is too blunt an instrument, because it includes households headed by 20-year-olds (i.e., students) as well as 90-year-olds (i.e., retirees).”
““My favorite statistic is that one-quarter of the members of the National Academy of Sciences were born abroad,” I was told by Harold Varmus, the president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and himself an academy member (and Nobel Prize winner).”
“The Census Bureau maintains this site, linking to each state's main statistic site.”
“He wryly adds, The point of a GDP statistic is to drain away those sorts of problems.”
“This statistic is especially important because people are much more likely to develop liver cancer or cirrhosis if they are infected early in life, rather than later in life (most people are infected with hepatitis B virus when they are adolescents and young adults).”
“This is a statistic from a poll that should send chills down the backs of not only Progressives, but their minions in the WH.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘statistic’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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POL - mathematics
Mathematical metaphors in political discourse
integrate, table, modular, member, modal, additive, product, unit, element, metric, sector, compute and 54 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Mathaphors √
Concepts o' dem numblurs; polysemy mathematicalia.
integer, factor, ∮, geometric, exponential, equation, aboutequals, variable, obtuse, triangle, angle, circle and 92 more...
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Dewdrops
Sparkling words I love :3
photograph, maelstrom, necromancy, pristine, cremation, euphamism, railway, xeric, journey, smear, crypt, gangrene and 43 more...
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Middle School Years
statistic
curious
appreciate
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Words I go out of my way to avoid...
For various reasons, words I greatly dislike to say!
Tweets
Looking for tweets for statistic.
PossibleUnderscore 42.7% or 47.3% or 65% or 68% or 83% or 87% 90% or 98% of statistics are made up on the spot. Jul 19, 2009