"fat tail" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fat tails [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fat tail (plural fat tails)
  1. A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man. Translations (fat-tail of beast): ላት (lat) (Amharic), أَلْيَة (ʔalya) [feminine] (Arabic), ܐܠܝܬܐ [feminine] (Aramaic), ܐܠܝܬܐ (ʾellīṯā) [Classical-Syriac, feminine] (Aramaic), אֲלִיתָא (ʾalīṯā) [feminine] (Aramaic), אֲלִּיתָה (ʾallīṯā) [feminine] (Aramaic), אֲלִּיתָא (ʾallīṯā) [feminine] (Aramaic), אלייתה [feminine] (Aramaic), دووڤ (dûv) (Central Kurdish), ࡀࡋࡉࡕࡀ [feminine] (Classical Mandaic), rasvahäntä (Finnish), Fettschwanz (German), ለት (lǟt) (Harari), אַלְיָה (ʾalyā) [feminine] (Hebrew), құйрық (qūiryq) (Kazakh), dûv [feminine, masculine] (Northern Kurdish), курдю́к (kurdjúk) [masculine] (Russian), ላት (lāt) (Silt'e), fettsvans [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fat_tail-en-noun-FTf54cri Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 39 34 Disambiguation of 'fat-tail of beast': 57 1 22 19
  2. The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome. Synonyms (high probability of extreme outcome): heavy tail
    Sense id: en-fat_tail-en-noun-lZw0gVfg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 39 34 Disambiguation of 'high probability of extreme outcome': 2 63 19 17
  3. (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0). Categories (topical): Statistics Synonyms (tail of distribution with positive kurtosis): leptokurtosis
    Sense id: en-fat_tail-en-noun-085S2dIy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 39 34 Topics: mathematics, probability, sciences, statistics Disambiguation of 'tail of distribution with positive kurtosis': 1 5 56 38
  4. (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance. Categories (topical): Statistics
    Sense id: en-fat_tail-en-noun-vK7wS21t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 39 34 Topics: mathematics, probability, sciences, statistics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fat-tail, fattail Related terms: fat-tailed, black swan

Inflected forms

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