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°)

Synonyms

fifth

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)

Translations

value

Finnish: kvintiili (fi)
Portuguese: quintil m

Spanish: quintil m

subset

Finnish: kvintiili (fi)

Portuguese: quintil m

Anagrams

quitline

Latin

Adjective

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, 1883–1887)

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