stats
English meaning: Stats
Definition
A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
Example
“Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.”
Another example: “The app shows your running stats, including pace and distance.”
Usage — When, Where & How
An informal clipping of 'statistics', meaning numerical data, especially in sport and gaming ('player stats', 'check the stats'). Casual register; the singular 'stat' can mean a single figure. (Also 'stat' in medicine means immediately.)
Etymology & Origin
English — Origin & History
A 20th-century informal shortening of 'statistics', from German 'Statistik', ultimately from Latin 'status' 'state'.
Related Words
Common Collocations
- player stats
- check the stats
- key stats
- game stats
- stats sheet
Word Forms
stat (n); stats; (from statistics)
Word Tools
Literary Heritage
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
/To thine own self be true/
“Be honest with yourself — and as naturally as night follows day, you will be unable to be false to others.”
“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?”
/I'm nobody! Who are you?/
“I am nobody — and that quiet anonymity is more honest than the noise of public fame.”
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- English
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