Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The value of the boundary at the 25th, 50th, or 75th percentiles of a frequency distribution divided into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In astrology, an aspect of planets when their longitudes differ by 90°. See
aspect , 7. - noun That point on a frequency-curve above or below which one fourth of the total number of cases are found.
- Involving an angular distance of 90°.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astrol.) Same as
quadrate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun statistics Any of the three
points that divide anordered distribution into four parts, each containing aquarter of thepopulation . - noun statistics Any one of the four groups so divided.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was a bet on the bottom 3/4th or so of American society, in particular on the second quartile from the bottom, because that’s where the incremental homeowners needed to push the home ownership from 64% to 69% would primarily come from.
Real Homes of Genius 2008
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It was a bet on the bottom 3/4th or so of American society, in particular on the second quartile from the bottom, because that’s where the incremental homeowners needed to push the home ownership from 64% to 69% would primarily come from.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Real Homes of Genius 2008
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We are not top of the heap by any stretch of the imagination but we are aggressive, we are top quartile, which is where we are in funding.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Birinyi called that the first phase, or "quartile," of the bull market.
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But he also found a lot of kids in the lowest economic quartile who had strong test scores, yet never went on to college.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He had found, predictably, that kids from the top economic quartile were most likely to go to college.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He had found, predictably, that kids from the top economic quartile were most likely to go to college.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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But he also found a lot of kids in the lowest economic quartile who had strong test scores, yet never went on to college.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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But he also found a lot of kids in the lowest economic quartile who had strong test scores, yet never went on to college.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He had found, predictably, that kids from the top economic quartile were most likely to go to college.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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