quintile

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  1. noun The astrological aspect of planets distant from each other by 72° or one fifth of the zodiac.
  2. noun Statistics The portion of a frequency distribution containing one fifth of the total sample.

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  • Money in Economy 2.0 is quintile originality—that which allows one sentient entity to outmaneuver another. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • The poor's access to basic services has substantially increased: during 1984-2004 access to electricity by the poorest quintile (bottom 25\%) in rural areas increased from 37\% to 94\% and to piped water from —  MRZine.org
  • You are a fifth-quintile wankstained, weak-ass little flamebait troll. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • The top income quintile (or richest 20 percent of the population) claimed the vast majority of benefits at 81.5 percent-more than four times the share of the lower four quintiles combined. —  BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
  • Redistributionists like Frank reason and argue as though (a) Republicans represent the interests of the top income quintile only, (b) Kansans are all lowest-quintile, and (c) they are therefore looking from the bottom up at the 15: 1 disparity in quality of life that income statistics suggests. —  Armed and Dangerous
 

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  1. Latin quīntus, fifth; see penkwe in Indo-European roots + -ile (as in quartile).

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  1. from Latin quintus, fifth, from quinque, five, + -ile.
 

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/ˈkwɪntɪl/
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