Word of the Day ·
statistic
/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/
noun
What it means
- A single item in a statistical study.
- A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
- A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.
In a sentence
By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.
Where it comes from
Back-formation from statistics.
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