percentile
/pəɹˈsɛn.taɪl/US/pɚˈsɛn.taɪl/
percentile noun: any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
Noun
percentile (plural percentiles)
- 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.
- She is highly intelligent—she has an IQ in the top percentile.
- Also, doctors are much more interested in the relationship between the percentiles for weight and length than they are the numbers themselves. Healthy babies tend to land in somewhat similar percentiles for both metrics and are probably getting enough nutrition.
This goes for those babies who don’t...2018 April 4, Elissa Strauss, “Growth charts for kids don’t measure up”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2018
percentile meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
percentile in Tamil
- விழுக்கடம், விழுத்தரம், விழுவெண், விழு எண், விழுக்குறி, விழுவரிசை
percentile in Marathi
- पर्सेन्टाईल, पर्सेन्टाइल
percentile in Bengali
- পার্সেন্টাইল
percentile in Telugu
- పర్సంటైల్
More languagesFewer languages
- percentile in Malayalam
- പെർസെൻ്റൈൽ, പെർസെന്റൈൽ, പെർസെൻറ്റൈൽ
- percentile in Kannada
- ಪರ್ಸೆಂಟೈಲ್
- percentile in Punjabi
- ਪਰਸੈਂਟਾਈਲ
- percentile in Gujarati
- પર્સેન્ટાઇલ, પર્સેન્ટાઈલ
- percentile in Tagalog
- kabahagdanin
- percentile in Indonesian
- persentil, presentil
Synonyms of percentile
Forms of percentile
| plural | percentiles |
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Origin of percentile
Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.
Words formed from percentile
- equipercentile
- interpercentile
- percentile dice
- percentiler
- percentile rank
Questions about percentile
- What does percentile mean?
- Percentile means any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
- What is percentile in Tamil?
- Percentile in Tamil is விழுக்கடம், விழுத்தரம், விழுவெண். See Percentile meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is percentile?
- Percentile is a noun.
- How do you pronounce percentile?
- Percentile is pronounced /pəɹˈsɛn.taɪl/.
- What is the plural of percentile?
- The plural of percentile is percentiles.
Words near percentile in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: percentile (page history and authors); percentile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); percentile (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentile (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentile (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentile (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentile (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentile (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentile (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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