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Definition of Percentile
1. 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.
Definition of Percentile
1. 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. ¹
2. Noun. (statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Percentile
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Percentile
1. The percentage of individuals in a group who have achieved a certain quantity (such as height, weight, and head circumference) or developmental milestone (such as walking well the 50th percentile for which is12 months of age). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percentile
Literary usage of Percentile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Educational Method by National education association of the United States Dept. of supervisors and directors of instruction (1922)
"An investigation of the permanency of percentile rank may, therefore, serve a double
... Since the units of the percentile rank scale are of unequal value, ..."
2. How to Measure in Education by William Anderson McCall (1922)
"How to Construct a percentile Scale.— Table 17 shows in the first column the number
... In the third column is shown the percentile corresponding to a given ..."
3. Some Fiscal Aspects of Public Education in American Cities by Edward Charles Elliott (1905)
"Transformation of Gross Itemized Expenditures to a percentile Basis. ...
These transformed percentile amounts are contained in Tables 1 and 2 (pages 18-25) ..."
4. Classes for Gifted Children: An Experimental Study of Methods of Selection by Guy Montrose Whipple (1919)
"The percentile Tables. A word of explanation is necessary to explain the way in
which the percentile tables were obtained. They were derived from tables ..."
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