percentile
Meanings
Plural: percentiles
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
- Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
- Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
Origin / Etymology
Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.
Synonyms
%ile, centile
Scrabble Score: 14
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Words With Friends Score: 18
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