quartile

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French quartil, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin quartilus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)taɪl/

Noun

quartile (plural quartiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
2. (statistics) Any one of the four groups so divided.

   This school is ranked in the first quartile.

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Derived terms

• interquartile range

Translations

any of the three points

• Czech: kvartil m
• Danish: kvartil c
• Estonian: kvartiil
• Finnish: kvartiili (fi)
• French: quartile (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Quartil n
• Italian: quartile (it)
• Maori: hauwhātanga
• Portuguese: quartil (pt) m
• Spanish: cuartil
• Swedish: kvartil c

any of the four groups

• Danish: kvartil c
• Estonian: kvartiil
• Finnish: kvartiili (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: quartile (fr) m
• Portuguese: quartil (pt) m
• Swedish: kvartil

Anagrams

• requital