Meaning of hexadecile | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into sixteen equally numerous subsets; a subset thus obtained.
2. The aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 22.5° (that is, 360° divided by 16) as they appear to an observer on earth.
   obsolete

Examples

“The assessor can then be asked to successively divide⟳ an interval into equally likely segments yielding the octiles (X_(.125), X_(.875)), hexadeciles (X_(.0625), X_(.9375)), etc., etc.”

“With each of the above methods, the quartile values are always either one of the data points, or exactly half way between two data points. Those methods involve⟳ only simple arithmetic and are easily extendable to octiles (eighths), hexadeciles (sixteenths), etc. They are not, however, extendable to quintiles (fifths) or percentiles (hundredths), etc. Furthermore, they tend⟳ to have⟳ a high bias. (That is, the quartile values calculated on subsets of the data set⟳ tend⟳ to vary⟳ more, and are not good predictors of the quartile values of the entire data set⟳.)”

“But becauſe ſome Aſpects are more Effectual than others, therefore they are (reſpectu graduum, Scientiæ and Congruentiæ, necnon Efficacitatus) thus to be Diſposed: viz. ☌. ☍. ◻. △. ⚹. SS. Q. Bq. Vc. Dec. Td. Sq. SSq. whereunto are added (as in the laſt and loweſt degree of Dignity and Efficacy) the Quindecile, Hexadecile, Vigintile, and the Icoſiteſſeragonall, (or figure⟳ of 24 ſides), which are only considered in Venus and Mercury with the Sun.”

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