pentile

From pent- + -ile.

pentile (plural pentiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the four points that divide an ordered distribution into five parts, each containing a fifth (20%) of the population. Used commonly for income distributions.
2. (statistics) Any one of the five groups.

   Her income placed her in the lowest pentile of the income distribution.

   • 2005 November 17, “2006 Integrated Resource Plan 2006 Integrated Resource Plan Advisory Council Advisory Council”, in Idaho Power‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 March 2006, page 15:

     high (30) & very high (10) pentiles not analyzed in IRP
     Apply pentiling to streamflows at all hydro plant locations from American Falls to Brownlee inflow (i.e. years comprising a pentile at Brownlee are those comprising the pentile at all locations)

• (statistics):
• median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), pentile/quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100), millile/permillile (1000)

pentile (third-person singular simple present pentiles, present participle pentiling, simple past and past participle pentiled)

1. To divide into pentiles.
   • 2005 November 17, “2006 Integrated Resource Plan 2006 Integrated Resource Plan Advisory Council Advisory Council”, in Idaho Power‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 March 2006, page 15:

     Apply pentiling to streamflows at all hydro plant locations from American Falls to Brownlee inflow (i.e. years comprising a pentile at Brownlee are those comprising the pentile at all locations)

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pentile (plural pentiles)

1. Obsolete form of pantile (“type of roof tile”).

• penlite

From pent(ano) +‎ -ile.

• IPA^(key): /penˈti.le/
• Rhymes: -ile
• Hyphenation: pen‧tì‧le

pentile m (plural pentili)

1. (organic chemistry) pentyl

• pentìle in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• pentile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• leptine