quintile

See also: Quintile

English

Noun

quintile (plural quintiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
2. (by extension) A subset thus obtained.
3. (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), millile (1000)

Translations

value

• Finnish: kvintiili (fi)
• Portuguese: quintil m
• Spanish: quintil m

subset

• Finnish: kvintiili (fi)
• Portuguese: quintil m

Anagrams

• quitline

Latin

Adjective

quīntīle

1. nominative/accusative/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)