Decile vs Centipede - What's the difference?
decile | centipede |
(statistics) Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency.
Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided.
(astrology) An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.
Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
* 1993 , Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin ,
* 2008 , Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch ,
* 2011 , Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology , 2nd Edition,
As nouns the difference between decile and centipede
is that decile is decile while centipede is (lb).As an adjective centipede is
having a hundred feet.decile
English
Noun
(en noun)- Although few people scored high marks, everyone did quite well—the lowest decile was over 50%.
- Our school is in the top decile for exam results.
Coordinate terms
* quantile * centile/percentile * vigintile * duodecile * nonile * octile * septile * sextile * quintile * quartile * tercile/tertileAnagrams
* ----centipede
English
(wikipedia centipede) (Chilopoda)Noun
(en noun)page 29,
- Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
page 58,
- The existence of millipedes, centipedes , insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.
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- All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.
