Decile vs. Quintile — What's the Difference?

In descriptive statistics, a decile is any of the nine values that divide the sorted data into ten equal parts, so that each part represents 1/10 of the sample or population. A decile is one possible form of a quantile; others include the quartile and percentile.

The astrological aspect of planets distant from each other by 72° or one fifth of the zodiac.

Any of the groups that result when a frequency distribution is divided into ten groups of equal size.

Any of the groups that result when a frequency distribution is divided into five groups of equal size.

Any of the values that separate each of these groups.

Any of the values that separate each of these groups.

(statistics) Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency.

(statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided.

(by extension) A subset thus obtained.

(astrology) An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.

(astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)

(statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores

The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72°.