Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be broken or cleft; pertaining to breakage or cleavage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing the quality of a sedimentary
stone as it relates to thesediments to cohesively bond without fracturing. A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure. - noun statistics The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
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Examples
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And I realize KUOW is just a fractile of NPR but they use the same tax-payer facilities affiliated with UW or PLU in Tacoma.
Sound Politics: The 20 Minute Anti-War Commercial On KUOW 2007
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Perhaps not surprisingly, Switters, as an erstwhile cyberneticist, had some theories about the bicameral brain, its fractile reflection of a universe steeped in paradox: how, simultaneously and inseparably, it functioned both as a computer running programs and as a program being run, how its mastery of preemphasis often failed to protect it against random signals, viruses, or the meddling of -imps.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Perhaps not surprisingly, Switters, as an erstwhile cyberneticist, had some theories about the bicameral brain, its fractile reflection of a universe steeped in paradox: how, simultaneously and inseparably, it functioned both as a computer running programs and as a program being run, how its mastery of preemphasis often failed to protect it against random signals, viruses, or the meddling of -imps.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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