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Percentile

//pəɹˈsɛn.taɪl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
  2. 2
    (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
  3. 3
    Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

    "She is highly intelligent—she has an IQ in the top percentile."

Etymology

Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.

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