onlier

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.

Anagrams

• Elinor, Lenoir, Loiner, lienor, neroli