Word of the Day:
percentile
What It Means
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.
Did You Know?
Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.
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