tertile
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- noun
- /ˈtɜrtaɪl/
- Specialized
:
tercio
- School size was divided into tertiles: small (<451 students), medium (451-621 students), and large (>621 students).
- lowest tertile
- highest tertile
- income tertiles
Examples
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In addition, we estimated associations according to tertiles of population density and GVF as alternative measures of rurality.
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We intended to classify family income into tertiles to allow the study of changes in income levels since childhood.
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The next 1979 individuals in this second category formed the second tertile, and all the remaining individuals formed the last tertile.
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We generated tertiles from the sum of the reported values.
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The rural poor were classified as the lower tertile of the rural population based on wealth scores data from the respective DHS.
Academic text (2016) -
We categorized the combined middle and higher tertiles of family income as non-poor and the lower tertile as poor.
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Scores were then grouped into tertiles (low, moderate, and high).
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And they looked at tertiles of unprocessed red meat intake and tertiles of fruit and vegetable intake.
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Purchasing power-adjusted distributions of our sample's income tertiles in Toronto and San Francisco are displayed in Table 1.
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The researchers divided the participants into three groups based on their scores, creating low, medium, and high tertiles.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
tertile = third (semi-transparent) = terti + ile
The noun sense names a 'one of three' category and is derivable from the notion 'third', but the combining form 'terti-' and '-ile' may not be transparently recognized by learners.
Etymology
A tertile comes from the Latin tertius, meaning 'third'. It simply names one of the three equal groups you get when you divide numbers or people into three parts.