quantile

quan·tile

[kwon-tahyl, -til]
noun Statistics.
one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.


Origin:
1935–40; quant(ity) + -ile noun suffix, on the model of percentile

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