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Percentile

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Noun

1. centile, percentile

(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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Percentile

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noun
one of 99 actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into 100 groups with equal frequencies; the 90th percentile is the value of a variable such that 90% of the relevant population is below that value
. Also called: centile

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Percentile

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noun Statistics
1. 
any of the values in a series dividing the distribution of the individuals in the series into one hundred groups of equal frequency
2. 
any of these groups
adjective
3. 
of a percentile or division into percentiles

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Percentile

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n.
Statistics
1. Any of the groups that result when a frequency distribution is divided into 100 groups of equal size.
2. Any of the values that separate each of these groups.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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