Statistic vs Quotation - What's the difference?
statistic | quotation |
A single item in a statistical study.
A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
As nouns the difference between statistic and quotation
is that statistic is a single item in a statistical study while quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.As an adjective statistic
is an alternative spelling of lang=en.statistic
English
(wikipedia statistic)Noun
(en noun)- By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic .
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* numberHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* statistically * statisticianquotation
English
(wikipedia quotation)Noun
(en noun)- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.