hexadeciles

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George Gough, Improving the Quality of and Aggregating Opinions Expressed as Subjective Probability Distributions [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation], Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University...
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...

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