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quintiles

quintiles is the plural of quintile.

Meaning of quintile

Noun

quintile (plural quintiles)

  1. Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
  2. (broadly) A subset thus obtained.
    • Effectively no household making less than $28,000 will pay federal income tax – usually about 15% of the bottom income quintile has some tax liability.2021 August 19, Tami Luhby, “Far fewer Americans owed federal income tax in 2020 because of the pandemic”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022
  3. An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)

Questions about quintiles

What is quintiles the plural of?
Quintiles is the plural of quintile.

Words near quintiles in the dictionary

  1. quinticlave
  2. quinticlaves
  3. quintics
  4. quintile
  5. quintiled
  6. quintiles
  7. Quintilian
  8. Quintilis
  9. quintilise
  10. quintilised
  11. quintille

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