decile
See also: décile
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdecile (plural deciles)
- (statistics) Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency.
- Although few people scored high marks, everyone did quite well—the lowest decile was over 50%.
- Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided.
- Our school is in the top decile for exam results.
- (astrology) An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.
Hypernyms
editCoordinate terms
edit- (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), millile (1000)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editvalue
subset
References
edit- ^ “decile, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
editItalian
editNoun
editdecile m (plural decili)
Related terms
edit- (organic chemistry): decano
Spanish
editVerb
editdecile
- second-person singular voseo imperative of decir combined with le
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