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Decile
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| decile (ˈdɛsɪl, -aɪl) | |
| —n | |
| statistics | |
| a. See also percentile one of nine actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into ten groups with equal frequencies: the ninth decile is the value below which 90% of the population lie | |
| b. a tenth part of a distribution | |
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Word Origin & History
decile
1670s in astrology; 1882 in statistics; from M.L. *decilis, from decem "ten" on the model of quintilis, sextilis.
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