onlier

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English

Etymology 1

From on- +‎ lier.

Noun

onlier (plural onliers)

  1. Something that lies very close to the expected position.
    • 1992, Helmut Blume, Andrew Goudie, Rita Gardner, Colour Atlas of the Surface Forms of the Earth, page 71:
      Butte ( onlier )
    • 1997, Ruud Weijermars, Structural Geology and Map Interpretation, page 80:
      Such outcrops of younger rock, entirely surrounded by older beds, are called outliers or onliers.
    • 2014, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Family Policy Outcomes, page 191:
      Although influential cases thus have extreme values on one or more of the variables, they can be onliers rather than outliers.
    • 2015, J. Glaesser, Young People's Educational Careers in England and Germany:
      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.
Antonyms

outlier

Etymology 2

From only +‎ -er.

Noun

onlier (plural onliers)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of onlyer
    • 1967, The Daily Review - Volume 13, page 10:
      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.
    • 2013, Ben Ross Schneider, Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America, page 161:
      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.

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