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percentile
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun percentile has 1 sense
- percentile(n = noun.cognition) centile - (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; Array is a kind of grade, mark, score
OXFORD DICTIONARY
percentile, n. Statistics one of 99 values of a variable dividing a population into 100 equal groups as regards the value of that variable.
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