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percentile

Syllabification: (per·cen·tile)
Pronunciation: /pərˈsenˌtīl/
Definition of percentile

noun

Statistics
  • each of the 100 equal groups into which a population can be divided according to the distribution of values of a particular variable.
  • each of the 99 intermediate values of a random variable that divide a frequency distribution into 100 groups:the tenth percentile for weight

percentile in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of percentile in the British & World English dictionary