Meaning & use
quartile
In statistics, one of three values that divide a set of ordered data into four equal parts.
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Students scoring in the top quartile earned scholarships to the university's honors program.
The report compared household incomes across the bottom and top quartiles of the population.
A note on using this word
The first quartile marks the 25th percentile, the second the median, and the third the 75th percentile of the data.
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