First Known Use: 1880
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statistic
noun sta·tis·tic \stə-ˈtis-tik\
: a number that represents a piece of information (such as information about how often something is done, how common something is, etc.)
statistics : a type of mathematics that deals with the study of statistics
Full Definition of STATISTIC
1
: a single term or datum in a collection of statistics
2
a : a quantity (as the mean of a sample) that is computed from a sample; specifically : estimate 3b b : a random variable that takes on the possible values of a statistic
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Origin of STATISTIC
singular of statistics
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Rhymes with STATISTIC
artistic, autistic, ballistic, Buddhistic, cladistic, cubistic, deistic, ekistic, eristic, faunistic, floristic, heuristic, holistic, hubristic, juristic, linguistic, logistic, meristic, monistic, patristic, phlogistic, puristic, simplistic, sophistic, stylistic, Taoistic, theistic, Thomistic, touristic, tropistic, truistic, veristic, Yahwistic
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