Meaning

3 senses
  1. A single item in a statistical study.

  2. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).

  3. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

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

More definitions
  • a datum that can be represented numerically

Examples

98 sentences
  1. The statistics are in our favor.

    Статистика на нашу користь. — deniko

    ruСтатистика говорит в нашу пользу. — al_ex_an_der

  2. The statistics are in your favor.

    ruСтатистика говорит в вашу пользу. — marafon

  3. Statistics don't always tell the whole story.

  4. According to statistics, world population is on the rise.

    deStatistiken zufolge nimmt die Weltbevölkerung zu. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Statistics suggest that the population of this town will double in five years.

    deStatistiken legen nahe, dass sich die Bevölkerung dieser Stadt in fünf Jahren verdoppeln wird. — al_ex_an_der

Translations

4 languages

Origin

Back-formation from statistics.

Back-formation from statistics.

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Forms

plural: statistics
Singularstatistic
Pluralstatistics

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
reduced to item of information

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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