onlier

plural onliers

1. Something that lies very close to the expected position.

   Butte ( onlier )

   1992, Helmut Blume, Andrew Goudie, Rita Gardner, Colour Atlas of the Surface Forms of the Earth, page 71

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   Such outcrops of younger rock, entirely surrounded by older beds, are called outliers or onliers.

   1997, Ruud Weijermars, Structural Geology and Map Interpretation, page 80

   Although influential cases thus have extreme values on one or more of the variables, they can be onliers rather than outliers.

   2014, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Family Policy Outcomes, page 191

   Regression analysts, insofar as they focus on a simple onlier/outlier distinction (where onlier refers to a low-residual case and outlier to a high-residual case), will tend to miss such causal complexity.

   2015, J. Glaesser, Young People's Educational Careers in England and Germany

plural onliers

1. alternativerareAlternative form of onlyer.

   And, on the side of labor and skills, these countries are still onliers, with low educational attainment, short job tenure, high regulation, and high informality.

   2013, Ben Ross Schneider, Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America, page 161

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   This finds its expression in the growth of the proportion of onliers in Party membership; from 32 per cent in 1956, it increased to 37.8 per cent at the end of 1965.

   1967, The Daily Review - Volume 13, page 10