quintile
pronunciation
How to pronounce quintile in British English:
UK [ˈkwɪntaɪl]
How to pronounce quintile in American English:
US [ˈkwɪnˌtaɪl, ˈkwɪntl]
Word Origin
- quintile (n.)
- 1610s, originally in astrology, from Latin quintus "the fifth" (see quinque-) + -ile, from quartile. Use in statistics dates to 1951.
Example
- 1. The sun 's magical quintile with philosophical jupiter widens our horizons and enables us to see our lives from a more cosmic perspective .
- 2. Roughly three-quarters of high-school dropouts with prison records never make it above the bottom income quintile .
- 3. College graduates are four times as likely to rocket from poverty into the highest quintile of wealth .
- 4. Average rates continued to rise within the top quintile , with the top 1 percent facing an effective rate of 31.2 percent .
- 5. That survey by the tuc last year was revealing . When asked whether responsibility for solving economic and social problems should lie mainly with government or with people , 62 % in the middle quintile said government .