oddball

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An eccentric or unusual person.

   “Miss Quinn thought that Oswald spoke Russian well in view of his lack of formal training; she found the evening uninteresting. Donovan, with whom she had a date later, testified that she told him that Oswald was “kind of an oddball.””

2. isim A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
3. sıfat Exotic, not mainstream.

   “An oddball word processor, for example, might never be supported by such helpful tools as spelling checkers, indexing programs, footnote utilities,...”