Percentile

Definition: Percentile

Percentile

Noun

1. (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.

Specialty Definitions: Percentile

Domain	Definitions
Mathematics	Values that divide a sample of data into one hundred groups containing(as far as possible)equal numbers of observations. Source: European Union. (references)
Statistics	The point below which a specified percentage of the observations fall. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Percentile

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In descriptive statistics, a percentile is any of the 99 values that divide the values in a set of data into 100 equal parts, so that each part represents 1/100th of the sample or population.

Some percentiles have special names:

The 10th, 20th, ... 90th percentiles are called deciles.
The 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles are called quartiles.
The 50th percentile is called the median.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Percentile."

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Synonym: Percentile

Synonym: centile (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: centile (mathematics, statistics).

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Crosswords: Percentile

Specialty definitions using "percentile": High End Exposure ♦ Maximum Exposure Range ♦ Reasonable Worst Case ♦ Uniform Thrift Performance Report. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Percentile

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Data from NHANES II were analyzed by comparing several parameters for the subjects at or above, or below, the 85th percentile of the reference population. (references)
		Those with levels above the 90th percentile (over 185 mg/dl) require special dietary instruction and close supervision with evaluation of other risk factors. (references)
		As described above, individuals with high- and moderate-risk cholesterol levels (greater than the 75th percentile) should be treated with diet or diet and drugs. (references)
Business		It is important to note that a percentile being high (or low) does not mean good (or bad) past, present or future financial performance. (references)
		Most health funds calculate benefits based on their claims experience - for example, choosing to pay a percentage of the average (mean) of their claims experience for a particular procedure (usually set at the 75th percentile). (references)
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Usage Frequency: Percentile

"Percentile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Percentile" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	30	63,341

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Percentile

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "percentile": Q-percentile.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Percentile

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
percentile	50	95th percentile	4
calculator growth percentile	23	chart growth infant percentile	4
growth percentile	21	85th percentile	4
iq percentile	19	baby chart percentile	3
confidence interval percentile rank	18	gre percentile	3
chart growth percentile	16	percentile statistics	3
percentile rank	9	chart child growth percentile	3
lsat percentile	7	gre percentile score	3
baby percentile	7	height weight percentile	3
percentile sat	7	calculation percentile	3
percentile sat score	7	calculation gre percentile score	3
baby chart growth percentile	6	percentile ranking	3
baby percentile weight	6	percentile score	3
baby growth percentile	6	chart percentile	3
lsat score percentile	5	child growth percentile	3
percentile weight	5	child height percentile weight	3
calculate percentile	4	99th iq percentile	2
growth infant percentile	4	child percentile weight	2
height percentile	4	percentile slosson	2
gmat percentile	4	iq percentile score	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Percentile

Language		Translations for "percentile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përqindësh, nivel në përqindje. (various references)

Chinese		百分数. (various references)

Farsi		محاسبه شده بقرارهرصدی , برحسب درصد (Percentage). (various references)

German		in prozenten. (various references)

Pig Latin		ercentilepay

Romanian		funcţie de repartiţie. (various references)

Russian		процентиль. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		u procentima. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Percentile

Derivations
	Words beginning with "percentile": percentiles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Percentile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: porpentine, precentile, prehentile. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Percentile"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "percentile" (pronounced perse"ntī'l)
5	-e" n t ī' l	gentile.
4	-n t ī' l	mercantile.
3	-t ī' l	freestyle, hairstyle, lifestyle, peristyle, textile, turnstile.
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Anagrams: Percentile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: epicenter, princelet.
	-2 letters: erectile, pelerine, penciler, preelect, prentice, pretence, terpenic.
	-3 letters: centile, creepie, enteric, enticer, epicene, lectern, licente, penlite, percent, perlite, precent, prelect, preteen, receipt, recline, reelect, replete, reptile, reticle, teenier, terpene, tiercel.
	-4 letters: ceiler, center, centre, cerite, client, crenel, cretin, eelier, entice, entire, entree, eterne, incept, lectin, lentic, lierne, linter, pecten, pectin, peeler.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: percentiles, preelecting, preelection.
	+2 letters: preelections, preselecting, preselection.
	+3 letters: nephelometric, preselections.
	+4 letters: complementizer, teleprocessing.
	+5 letters: complementaries, complementizers, interperceptual, reconceptualize, teleprocessings.
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