ventile meaning: definition, etymology

ventile

noun

Etymology From Italian venti (“twenty”), Late Latin vĭnti, from Latin vīgintī.

Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics Any of the nineteen points that divide an ordered distribution into twenty parts, each containing one twentieth of the population.

Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics Any one of the twenty groups so divided.

Synonyms: vigintile
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: median (2-quantile), tercile, tertile, quartile, pentile, quintile, sextile, septile, octile, decile, hexadecile, ventile, vigintile, centile, percentile (100), millile, permillile (1000)