decile

noun

dec·ile ˈde-ˌsī(-ə)l

-səl

: any one of nine numbers that divide a frequency distribution into 10 classes such that each contains the same number of individuals

also : any one of these 10 classes

decile adjective

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By high school two-thirds of the students in the top 10% of the class are girls, while about two-thirds of the students in the bottom decile are boys. —

David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024 Age The most common age decile for General Counsels in the Big Four is 40-49, representing 34.5% of General Counsels in 2017 and 38.4% of General Counsels in 2023. —

Chris Deubert, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024 Our second table has a higher hurdle for constancy of growth: All these land in the top decile of the universe in predictability of the earnings progression. —

William Baldwin, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024 The income of the lowest decile fell by more than fourteen per cent, that of the second lowest by eight per cent, and so on. —

Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for decile