different between quartermaster vs quartile

English

Alternative forms

• quarter-master

Etymology

From Dutch kwartiermeester, kwartier-meester. Compare German Quartiermeister and French quartier-maître. Surface analysis quarter +? master.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k(w)??t??mæst?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??t??m??st?/
• Hyphenation: quar?ter?mas?ter

Noun

quartermaster (plural quartermasters)

1. (military) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
2. (nautical) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.

Translations

Verb

quartermaster (third-person singular simple present quartermasters, present participle quartermastering, simple past and past participle quartermastered)

1. To act as a quartermaster

English

Etymology

From Middle French quartil, from Medieval Latin quartilus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw??(?)ta?l/

Noun

quartile (plural quartiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
2. (statistics) Any one of the four groups so divided.

   This school is ranked in the first quartile.

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Derived terms

• interquartile range

Translations

Anagrams

• requital