oddball

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

Exotic, not mainstream.

Origin

Compound of odd + ball. Attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.

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