pentile
English
Etymology 1
Noun
pentile (plural pentiles)
- (statistics) Any of the four points that divide an ordered distribution into five parts, each containing a fifth (20%) of the population. Used commonly for income distributions.
- (statistics) Any one of the five groups.
- Her income placed her in the lowest pentile of the income distribution.
- 2005 November 17, “2006 Integrated Resource Plan 2006 Integrated Resource Plan Advisory Council Advisory Council”, in Idaho Power[1], archived from the original on 15 March 2006, page 15:
- high (30) & very high (10) pentiles not analyzed in IRP
Apply pentiling to streamflows at all hydro plant locations from American Falls to Brownlee inflow (i.e. years comprising a pentile at Brownlee are those comprising the pentile at all locations)
Coordinate terms
- (statistics):
- median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), pentile/quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100), millile/permillile (1000)
Verb
pentile (third-person singular simple present pentiles, present participle pentiling, simple past and past participle pentiled)
- To divide into pentiles.
- 2005 November 17, “2006 Integrated Resource Plan 2006 Integrated Resource Plan Advisory Council Advisory Council”, in Idaho Power[2], archived from the original on 15 March 2006, page 15:
- Apply pentiling to streamflows at all hydro plant locations from American Falls to Brownlee inflow (i.e. years comprising a pentile at Brownlee are those comprising the pentile at all locations)
References
Etymology 2
Noun
pentile (plural pentiles)
- Obsolete form of pantile (“type of roof tile”).
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /penˈti.le/
- Rhymes: -ile
- Hyphenation: pen‧tì‧le
Noun
pentile m (plural pentili)
Further reading
- pentìle in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- pentile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana