Zodiac vs Quintile - What's the difference?
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(astrology) The belt-like region of the celestial sphere approximately eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic, which thousands of years ago included the apparent path of the sun, moon, and planets.
(astrology) The twelve equal divisions of the astrological zodiacal region into signs, or houses, of the zodiac, each sign named after a constellation in this region.
(astronomy) The belt-like region of the celestial sphere corresponding to the apparent path of the sun over the course of a year, the ecliptic.
(countable) A circle decorated with the signs of the zodiac.
Any of various astrological systems considered similar to the above.
* 1998 , Sylvia Sikundar and Barbara DuMoulin, Celebrating Our Cultures , Pembroke Publishers Limited, ISBN 978-1-55138-102-2,
(statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
(by extension) A subset thus obtained.
(astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
As nouns the difference between zodiac and quintile
is that zodiac is (zodiac) while quintile is (statistics) any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.zodiac
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(wikipedia zodiac)Alternative forms
* zodiack (obsolete) * ZodiacNoun
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- Discussing both Chinese and Western zodiacs might be a prewriting activity.
