quartile
noun
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A quartile is a quarter of a specific group that has been tested or evaluated in specific ways. The first quartile is the one that scores highest and the fourth quartile scores lowest. For achievement and proficiency tests, the first quartile is the place to be; for blood pressure or cholesterol, the third quartile is healthier.
Examples of quartile in a Sentence
Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 June 2024
Destination Crenshaw touches three census tracts that fall in California’s highest quartile for poverty and unemployment.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
The Oilers rank in the top five for both regular season gate receipts and local media, while sponsorship revenue is in the top quartile.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 13 June 2024
But an additional six countries not included in the top 25 percent for ten-year or 30-year deficits in the 2017–2018 list—Chad, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Mali, and Niger—are projected to rise into the top quartile by June 2019.
—Joshua Busby, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2018
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“Quartile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quartile. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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