oddball

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. An eccentric or unusual person.
2. A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

Adj

Exotic, not mainstream.

Concepts

excentrique

olibrius

exotique

qui répugne

Synonymes

eccentric

crank

geek

flake

eccentric person

kook

maverick

original

quirk

weirdo

character

exobiological

curiosity

exotic

foreign

freak

Traductions

Exzentriker

شاذّ

excêntrico

Original

exòtic

aliena

شخْص غرِيب الأطْوار

estrafolari

excèntric

Eigenbrötler

extravagant

fremd

fremdländisch

Kauz

🦉

forà

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɑːdˌbɔl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Compound of odd + ball. First used in late 1930s, describing an extra ball played as a bonus in pin-ball type games. Well-attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.