PERCENTILE

percentile, centile

(noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

percentile (plural percentiles)

(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.

(statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

Synonyms

• %ile

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)

Synonyms

• centile

Anagrams

• pencil tree

Source: Wiktionary



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