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Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts
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percentile
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Wikipedia
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A percentile (or a centile ) is a measure used in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall. For example, the 20th percentile is the value (or score) below which 20% of the observations ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context statistics English) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population. 2 (context statistics English) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Figure 2 shows the percentile proliferation indices obtained with the two methods. ▪ In general, children stay in the same percentile band they were in at birth. ▪ Okay, uh, what is your percentile ? ▪ Seven children who were ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (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 [syn: centile ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1885, coined by English scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911) from percent + -ile .
Usage examples of percentile.
My mom, whose extraversion percentile is off the charts, has introduced me to tons of natives in the Upper Valley.
First, when you receive your written report all scores and scaled subtest scores and percentiles will be included.
Given an abstract reasoning subtest in the ninetieth percentile and spotty school attendance that weakened his knowledge base, I figured it for an underestimate.
After going over each of the subtests, I pointed out that his full-scale IQ was in the 85th percentile.
The Riirgaans and the Bursteeni and the Tchi all scurried off to their embassies, to pore over the playback, in the vain hope that their translation programs had succeeded in furthering their understanding another percentile point or two.
He had study credits for biology and xenobiology, and had passed in the top percentile the survival courses required by the Exploratory Arm of the Fleet.
Tyrone is at the top of his class in language arts, near the top in word graphic presentation, and in the top twentieth percentile in basic computational skills.
We wouldn't be the same strong industrial society after one thousand megs but our cities would still be standing and the mortality rate would be in the fairly low percentiles, about eight to twelve percent.
Next I enlarged upon the divers failings of New Tammany College, past and present, as revealed to me by Max and partially confirmed by my own reading and observation: its oppression of Frumentians, its lawless Informationalism, its staggering wastefulness, its pillage of natural resource and despoil of natural beauty, its hostility to learning and refinement, its apotheosis of the lowest percentile, its vulgarity, inflated self-esteem, self-righteousness, self-deception, sentimentality, hypocrisy, artificiality, simple-mindedness, naï.
This ability works like a conjure fire elemental spell, but it calls for a percentile dice roll when the druid makes a conjuration attempt.
A fervid enthusiast, Greene has found in extempore lecturing his true vocation, especially among the lower percentiles of the student body.