n. Statistics 1. Any of the groups that result when a frequency distribution is divided into twenty groups of equal size. 2. Any of the values that separate each of these groups. [vent-, twenty (probably suggested by Italian venti, twenty, from Old Italian, from Latin vīgintī; see wīkṃtī in the Appendix of Indo-European roots) + -(t)ile + as in QUARTILE, QUINTILE, SEXTILE, etc.] |
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