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decile

dec·ile

decile

 
pronunciation:
de sihl [or] de saIl
features:
Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
part of speech: noun
definition: in statistics, any of the values that divide a frequency distribution into ten groups of equal frequency, or any one of these groups.
Her reading test score was in the eighth decile among third-graders.
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