quartile
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French quartil, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin quartilus
Pronunciation
Noun
quartile (plural quartiles)
- (statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
- (statistics) Any one of the four groups so divided.
- This school is ranked in the first quartile.
Hypernyms
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
Translations
any of the three points
any of the four groups