Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SEXTILE
Etymology
Adjective
sextile (not comparable)
(astronomy, astrology) Of or denoting the aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 60°.
Noun
sextile (plural sextiles)
(statistics) A quantile of six equal proportions; any of the subsets thus obtained.
A segment that is a sixth of the whole.
(astronomy, astrology) A sextile aspect or position.
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)
Anagrams
• exilest
Source: Wiktionary
Sex"tile, a. Etym: [F. sextil, fr. L. sextus the sixth, from sex six. See Six.] (Astrol.)
Definition: Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees. Glanvill.
Sex"tile, n. Etym: [Cf. F. aspect sextil.] (Astrol.)
Definition: The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: Hutton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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