quintile
See also: Quintile
English
Noun
quintile (plural quintiles)
- (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
- (by extension) A subset thus obtained.
- (astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
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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)
Translations
value
subset
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Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) quīntīle
- nominative neuter singular of quīntīlis
- accusative neuter singular of quīntīlis
- vocative neuter singular of quīntīlis
References
- quintile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)