Usually means: Measure of tails' relative thickness.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (kurtosis)

noun:  (statistics) A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.
noun:  (statistics) Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.

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