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quintile

 
Dictionary: quin·tile   (kwĭn'tīl', kwĭnt'l) pronunciation

n.
  1. The astrological aspect of planets distant from each other by 72° or one fifth of the zodiac.
  2. Statistics. The portion of a frequency distribution containing one fifth of the total sample.

[Latin quīntus, fifth + -ile (as in QUARTILE).]


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