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percentile
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
percentile
(noun)
percentile
/pɚ
ˈ
sɛnˌtajəl/
noun
plural
percentiles
percentile
/pɚ
ˈ
sɛnˌtajəl/
noun
plural
percentiles
Britannica Dictionary definition of PERCENTILE
[
count
]
:
one of 100 equal parts that a group of people can be divided into in order to rank them
She scored in the 95th
percentile
in math. [=she got a higher score in math than 95 percent of her classmates]
His height and weight are in the 80th
percentile
for boys his age.
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