percentile
IPA: pɝsˈɛntaɪɫ
noun
- (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.
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Examples of "percentile" in Sentences
- It does not represent a percentile.
- The third was at about the 50th percentile.
- The school is in the 65th percentile in math.
- The school is in the 73rd percentile in math.
- The school is in the 76th percentile in math.
- It is commonly also expressed as a percentile.
- Relative percentile inequity increased slightly.
- Some of us are at the 95th percentile and others at the 5th percentile.
- The annals of Internal Medicine has an Eigen Factor in the 98.6 percentile.
- The following are the middle percentile of SAT scores for Queens University of Charlotte as provided by the Princeton Review.
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