"quartile" meaning in English

See quartile in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)taɪl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-quartile.wav [Southern-England] Forms: quartiles [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French quartil, from Medieval Latin quartilus. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|quartil}} Middle French quartil, {{der|en|ML.|quartilus}} Medieval Latin quartilus Head templates: {{en-noun}} quartile (plural quartiles)
  1. (statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population. Categories (topical): Statistics, Four Translations (any of the three points): kvartil [masculine] (Czech), kvartil [common-gender] (Danish), kvartiil (Estonian), kvartiili (Finnish), quartile [masculine] (French), Quartil [neuter] (German), quartile (Italian), hauwhātanga (Maori), quartil [masculine] (Portuguese), cuartil (Spanish), kvartil [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-quartile-en-noun-yXXpZcPX Disambiguation of Four: 53 47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 73 27 Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics Disambiguation of 'any of the three points': 72 28
  2. (statistics) Any one of the four groups so divided. Categories (topical): Statistics, Four Translations (any of the four groups): kvartil [common-gender] (Danish), kvartiil (Estonian), kvartiili (Finnish), quartile [masculine] (French), quartil [masculine] (Portuguese), kvartil (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-quartile-en-noun-IsmdgdJ6 Disambiguation of Four: 53 47 Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics Disambiguation of 'any of the four groups': 37 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: quantile Derived forms: lower quartile, upper quartile, interquartile range
Coordinate_terms: median (2-quantile) [statistics, mathematics, sciences], tercile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], tertile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], quintile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], sextile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], septile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], octile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], decile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], hexadecile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], ventile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], vigintile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], centile [statistics, mathematics, sciences], percentile (100) [statistics, mathematics, sciences], millile (1000) [statistics, mathematics, sciences]

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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