1. one of four equal groups into which a set of things can be divided according to the distribution of a particular variable
   • ● women in the fourth quartile of height (= the shortest 25% of women)
   Compare : quintile
   Word Originlate 19th cent.: from medieval Latin quartilis, from Latin quartus ‘fourth’.

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