Word.ws English Dictionary

hexadecile

Syllables: hex·a·dec·ileUK/ˈhɛksəˌdɛsaɪɫ/US/ˈhɛksəˌdɛsəl/

hexadecile noun: any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into sixteen equally numerous subsets; a subset thus obtained.

Noun

hexadecile (plural hexadeciles)

  1. Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into sixteen equally numerous subsets; a subset thus obtained.
    • The assessor can then be asked to successively divide an interval into equally likely segments yielding the octiles (X_(.125), X_(.875)), hexadeciles (X_(.0625), X_(.9375)), etc., etc.1974, Robert George Gough, Improving the Quality of and Aggregating Opinions Expressed as Subjective Probability Distributions [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation], Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University...
    • With each of the above methods, the quartile values are always either one of the data points, or exactly half way between two data points. Those methods involve only simple arithmetic and are easily extendable to octiles (eighths), hexadeciles (sixteenths), etc. They are not, however, extendable to...2002 July 20, “Defining Quartiles”, in Ask Dr. Math, The Math Forum, Goodwin College of Professional Studies, Drexel University, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2015
  2. (obsolete) The aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 22.5° (that is, 360° divided by 16) as they appear to an observer on earth.
    • But becauſe ſome Aſpects are more Effectual than others, therefore they are (reſpectu graduum, Scientiæ and Congruentiæ, necnon Efficacitatus) thus to be Diſposed: viz. ☌. ☍. ◻. △. ⚹. SS. Q. Bq. Vc. Dec. Td. Sq. SSq. whereunto are added (as in the laſt and loweſt degree of Dignity and Efficacy) the...1683, George Wharton, “Of the Planetary Aspects, both Old and New, their Characters, and Æquations”, in John Gadbury, editor, The Works of that Late Most Excellent Philosopher and Astronomer, Sir...

Adjective

hexadecile (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a hexadecile.
    • Parameters are then non-linearly re-scaled to the range of 0 to 15 to create a 4 bit acoustic vector component. Empirical non-linear scales were pre-determined for each parameter such that, over the long term, their values distributed evenly across a set of hexadecile bins representing the full...2001, J. B[ruce] Millar with D[avid] R[ichard] L[lewellyn] Davies, “A Reassessment of Temporal Information in Speech Processing [Workshop on Innovative Speech Processing, Stratford-upon-Avon...
    • Several algorithms were tested for the equi-population transform. The simplest consisted of dividing the total population by 16 and then, in a single linear scan, the parameter histogram was divided into hexadecile units. This approach performed poorly where parameter distributions were peaky...2002 March, David Richard Llewellyn Davies, Representing Time in Automated Speech Recognition [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation], Canberra, A.C.T.: Australian National University, →OCLC, archived from...
  2. (obsolete) Of or denoting a hexadecile aspect.

Examples of hexadecile in a sentence

  • Those methods involve only simple arithmetic and are easily extendable to octiles (eighths), hexadeciles (sixteenths), etc.2002 July 20, “Defining Quartiles”, in Ask Dr. Math, The Math Forum, Goodwin College of Professional Studies, Drexel University, archived...
  • The simplest consisted of dividing the total population by 16 and then, in a single linear scan, the parameter histogram was divided into hexadecile units.2002 March, David Richard Llewellyn Davies, Representing Time in Automated Speech Recognition [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation], Canberra...

Forms of hexadecile

pluralhexadeciles

Origin of hexadecile

From hexa- + decile or hexadeca- + -ile.

Questions about hexadecile

What does hexadecile mean?
Hexadecile means any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into sixteen equally numerous subsets; a subset thus obtained.
How do you use hexadecile in a sentence?
Those methods involve only simple arithmetic and are easily extendable to octiles (eighths), hexadeciles (sixteenths), etc.
What part of speech is hexadecile?
Hexadecile can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce hexadecile?
Hexadecile is pronounced /ˈhɛksəˌdɛsaɪɫ/ (UK).
What is the plural of hexadecile?
The plural of hexadecile is hexadeciles.

Words near hexadecile in the dictionary

  1. hexadecenoates
  2. hexadecenoic
  3. hexadecenoic acid
  4. hexadecenoyl
  5. hexadecenyl
  6. hexadecile
  7. hexadeciles
  8. hexadecimal
  9. hexadecimal time
  10. hexadecimal times
  11. hexadecimally

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hexadecile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hexadecile.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hexadecile. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.