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Definition for tertile

Noun
  1. (statistics) Any of the two points that divideTo split or separate (something) into two or more parts. an orderedPast tense of to order. distributiona distribution or being distributed; specifically, (a) apportionment by law (of funds, property, etc.), (b) the process by which commodities get to final consumers, including storing, selling, shipping, and advertising, (c) frequency of occurrence or extent of existence into three parts, each containingPresent participle of to contain. a third of the populationa count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
  2. (statistics) Any one of the three groupsPlural of group. so dividedpast tense, and past participle of the verb to divide.
    The first tertile results include January through April's revenues.

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