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Chauvenet's criterion — In statistical theory, the Chauvenet s criterion (named for William Chauvenet[1]) is a means of assessing whether one piece of experimental data an outlier from a set of observations, is likely to be spurious. To apply Chauvenet s criterion,… … Wikipedia
sherbet — (n.) c.1600, zerbet, drink made from diluted fruit juice and sugar, from Turk. serbet, from Pers. sharbat, from Arabic sharba(t) a drink, from shariba he drank. Related to SYRUP (Cf. syrup) … Etymology dictionary
