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DECILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("decile" is a kind of...):
grade; mark; score (a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance))
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)