Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The astrological aspect of planets distant from each other by 72° or one fifth of the zodiac.
- noun Statistics The portion of a frequency distribution containing one fifth of the total sample.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The aspect of planets when they are distant from each other the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72°.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72°.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun statistics Any of the
quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equallynumerous subsets. - noun by extension A subset thus obtained.
- noun astrology An
aspect ofplanets that are distant from each other by one fifth of azodiac (72°)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lowest quintile is spending 14% more in 2005 than it was in 1985, the second quintile 16%, the third quintile 11%, the fourth 13%, and the top quintile is spending an additional 16%.
The Distribution of Consumer Spending, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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JT: If only the bottom quintile is benefited and the middle class stagnates, the median will not rise.
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JT: If only the bottom quintile is benefited and the middle class stagnates, the median will not rise.
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Forty percent of families filing for bankruptcy are in the second income quintile, which is above the poverty level but still struggling.
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The 20% of stocks that had the highest P/Es, for example, were placed in the top P/E group called a quintile in statistical jargon, the next 60% in the middle group, the lowest 20% in the bottom group.
Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998
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The 20% of stocks that had the highest P/Es, for example, were placed in the top P/E group called a quintile in statistical jargon, the next 60% in the middle group, the lowest 20% in the bottom group.
Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998
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The Census report notes that the highest "quintile" or fifth of income-earners received 50.3 percent of all income last year, the bottom fifth receive only 3.4% ..
Dave Johnson: Listening To Conservatives Is Making Us Poor And Poorer 2010
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The Census report notes that the highest "quintile" or fifth of income-earners received 50.3 percent of all income last year, the bottom fifth receive only 3.4% ..
Dave Johnson: Listening To Conservatives Is Making Us Poor And Poorer 2010
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The Census report notes that the highest "quintile" or fifth of income-earners received 50.3 percent of all income last year, the bottom fifth receive only 3.4% ..
Dave Johnson: Listening To Conservatives Is Making Us Poor And Poorer 2010
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The latest data from the Congressional Budget Office show that in 2007, the top "quintile"
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Steven Pearlstein 2011
chained_bear commented on the word quintile
"In astronomy, an aspect of the planets, when they are 72 degrees, or a fifth part of the zodiac, distant from each other."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 377
October 12, 2008