| outlier |
a person who lives away from his place of work an extreme deviation from the mean
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| Oudin technique |
a single diffusion (see under diffusion) technique in which agar containing antiserum is placed in a test tube and antigen is layered over it; precipitin lines form where the concentrations of each antigen and antibody are equivalent.
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| outbreak |
Virus outbreaks occur when a virus bypasses infection control measures and a relatively high number of infections are observed where no cases or sporadic cases occurred in the past. The study of pathogenic viral outbreaks is a branch of epidemiology and usually refers to virus outbreaks that make people, animals, or plants sick. ...
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| outsourcing |
Outsourcing (or contracting out) is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing is a business decision that can be made for quality or financial reasons. A subset of the term (offshoring) also implies transfering jobs to another country, either by hiring local subcontractors or building a facility in an area where labor is cheap. ...
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| out-of-body experience |
a spontaneous or intentionally induced experience in which the person feels their consciousness to be located elsewhere than where their body is located; in the esoteric literature, referred to as astral projection.
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