Statistic

Quick meaning: Statistic is an adjective meaning A single item in a statistical study.

Meaning

A single item in a statistical study.

More Meanings

1. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
2. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
3. (transitive) To analyze or describe using statistics.
4. (intransitive) To cite or calculate statistics.
5. (transitive) To comprise (as statistics)
6. Alternative form of statistical.

Example Sentences

By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.

When you get us all neatly docketed and statisticked, where will you put me?

When a fellow quits statisticking for a while, they say, "Oh, haven't you one more statistic?”

I ran into what to me is the most horrible statistic I have ever run into in some thirty-five years of statisticking.

Word Forms

• statistics
• statisticking
• statisticked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include figure, statistical, number, stats, numeral, figures.

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