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Meaning of "quintile" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD QUINTILE

From Latin quintus fifth.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF QUINTILE

quintile  [ˈkwɪntaɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUINTILE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quintile is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES QUINTILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of quintile in the English dictionary

The definition of quintile in the dictionary is an aspect of 72° between two heavenly bodies. Other definition of quintile is a fifth part of a distribution.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUINTILE


Antheil
ˈæntaɪl
biquintile
ˌbaɪˈkwɪntaɪl
centile
ˈsɛntaɪl
freestyle
ˈfriːˌstaɪl
gentile
ˈdʒɛntaɪl
hairstyle
ˈhɛəˌstaɪl
hostile
ˈhɒstaɪl
infantile
ˈɪnfənˌtaɪl
infertile
ɪnˈfɜːtaɪl
lifestyle
ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl
pentyl
ˈpɛntaɪl
percentile
pəˈsɛntaɪl
quantile
ˈkwɒntaɪl
stile
staɪl
style
staɪl
tactile
ˈtæktaɪl
textile
ˈtɛkstaɪl
tile
taɪl
utile
ˈjuːtaɪl
versatile
ˈvɜːsəˌtaɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUINTILE

quintan
Quintana Roo
quintar
quinte
quintessence
quintessential
quintessentially
quintet
quintette
quintic
Quintilian
quintillion
quintillionth
Quintin
quintroon
quintuple
quintuplet
quintuplicate
quintuplication
quintuply

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUINTILE

Castile
chrysotile
contractile
cortile
ductile
erectile
fertile
futile
interquartile
inutile
mercantile
motile
pantile
portatile
projectile
quartile
reptile
rutile
subtile
untile

Synonyms and antonyms of quintile in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «quintile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUINTILE

Find out the translation of quintile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of quintile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quintile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

五分之一
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quintil
570 millions of speakers

English

quintile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पंचमक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خمس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

квентилю
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quintil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পঞ্চমাংশের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quintile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kuintil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Quintil
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

五分位数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

분위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Quintile
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhóm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குவின்டைல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पंचकडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

quintil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

quintile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kwintyl
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

квентілю
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

chintila
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

quintile
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kwintiel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kvintilen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kvintil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quintile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUINTILE»

The term «quintile» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of quintile
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «QUINTILE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «quintile» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «quintile» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quintile

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUINTILE»

Discover the use of quintile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quintile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
World Development Indicators 2010
Country averages obscure Inequalities for school completion rates persist for men and women 1f School completion rate (percent) 100 75 Female Male 0 25 50 Richest 4th 3rd 2nd Poorest quintile quintile quintile quintile quintile Source: ...
World Bank, 2010
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Income and Wealth
The main reason income in the top quintile should be expected to rise more rapidly than in the bottom quintile is simply because there are many more workers at the top than at the bottom. There are nearly six times as many full-time  ...
Alan Reynolds, 2006
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The Venture Capital Cycle
Table 11.2 Syndication partners in venture financings of privately held biotechnology firms Size quintile of syndication partner Venture capital size quintiles Largest Second Middle Fourth Smallest Note: The sample consists of 651 financing ...
Paul Alan Gompers, Joshua Lerner, 2004
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Economics
The average household in the top quintile contains 3.2 persons, and the average household in the bottom quintile contains 1.8 persons. Some economists have argued that the unequal quintile populations skew the Census's measure of the ...
Roger A. Arnold, 2008
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Vocations: The New Midheaven Extension Process
Bill Gates (Case 20-M) has Uranus quintile Mars, ruler of his Midheaven—tech- nological creativity! • Jack Nicholson has Mercury quintile his Ascendant—the creativity of portrayal, of personal expression! • Clint Eastwood has two quintiles ...
Noel Tyl, 2006
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Wealth in America: Trends in Wealth Inequality
was lower for both segments of the distribution, but because these estimates are broken down by quintile, there is not as much skew in the estimates as there would be if the wealth of the entire distribution were estimated simultaneously.
Lisa A. Keister, 2000
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Advertising Media Workbook and Sourcebook
The Media Meaning of a Quintile Now that you know that Quintile I is the heaviest consumption and that Quintile V is the lightest consumption, let's put some media definitions to these sometimes abstract concepts. The chart above shows the ...
Larry D. Kelley, Donald W. Jugenheimer, 2005
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Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way
Note: Cells indicate the percent of people in adult quintiles who originated in each childhood quintile. Source: Author's estimates from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort. Adult quintiles are based on 2000 net assets.
Lisa A. Keister, 2005
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Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 1991?
3,060 78.6 2,807 83.2 2,710 78.2 1,245 91.5 1,999 83.5 1,437 88.5 3,595 73.0 3,631 80.3 4,355 78.5 Fourth income quintile . 2,982 24.3 3,300 71.3 3,099 75.3 435 78.8 585 54.5 555 80.4 2,053 51.1 2,192 83.4 2,588 36.0 Fifth income quintile ...
Howard Allan Savage, Peter J. Fronczek, 1993
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Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America
As an example, in Mexico, Haiti, Paraguay, and Bolivia, the decline in the share of remittances in income from the highest receiving quintile to the lowest receiving quintile is about 10 percent. In these countries, the share of remittances in ...
Pablo Fajnzylber, J. Humberto Lopez, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUINTILE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term quintile is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tennis, cycling and socio-economic advantage
Twenty percent of TV tennis viewers are from the C quintile, 20% from the D quintile, while the least well-off E and FG quintiles account for 18% respectively. «Roy Morgan Research, Jun 15»
2
Report: Negligent Parenting Hurts Black Students' Performance
But the most surprising finding is that the top quintile of black homes reported having fewer books (69) than the bottom quintile of white homes (71). «Breitbart News, Jun 15»
3
Dozens of Northeast Florida schools rank at bottom in third-grade …
At another 14 Duval County schools, about four in 10 third graders made the lowest-quintile list and another 35 Duval schools, including charter schools, had a ... «Florida Times-Union, Jun 15»
4
How to spread the wealth, explained with Legos
That's about 21 times greater than the $14,000 average earnings in the bottom income quintile. But once taxes -- including income, payroll, excise and a share of ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
5
Quintiles, Quest Diagnostics Form Lab Services Joint Venture
Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. and Quest Diagnostics Inc. agreed to pool their clinical-trial services for drugmakers into a joint venture. Quintiles will own ... «Bloomberg, Mar 15»
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A little more money for no-fee schools
Public schools are divided into five quintiles, with poor schools having a low quintile ranking; better-resourced schools have a higher ranking. Schools with the ... «Independent Online, Jan 15»
7
Matric: poor schools excel
Padayachee said that in 2013, quintile 4 and 5 schools produced most of the bachelor passes despite the fact that 78 percent of the country's schools and ... «Independent Online, Jan 15»
8
Income Statistics Don't Tell the Whole Economic Story
It is still the case that households can shift from one quintile to another quickly. This is often the case of small business owners who sell their businesses: one ... «What They Think, Sep 14»
9
The state of America's widening wealth gap
The gap between the bottom and top quintiles in America has widened, as has the gap between blacks and whites, and between workers with only a high school ... «Washington Post, Aug 14»
10
SA university revises admissions policy for black students
Top-performing black students from rural and low quintile schools will take up 60% of health sciences faculty admissions, the University of the Witwatersrand ... «BusinessTech, Jun 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Quintile [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/quintile>. May 2024 ».
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