Definitions for percentiles

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percentiles per·cen·tile

Spelling: [per-sen-tahyl, -til]

IPA: /pərˈsɛn taɪl, -tɪl/

Percentiles is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 995 anagrams from letters in percentiles (ceeeilnprst).

Definitions for percentiles

noun

1. one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies:

adjective

1. of or relating to a percentile or a division of a distribution by percentiles.

Origin of percentiles

First recorded in 1880-85; percent + -ile

Examples for percentiles

A state in the 90th percentile (with the least amount of hate crimes) was given 20 points.

A state in the 90th percentile (with the least amount of complaints filed) was given 20 points.

These differentials, he writes “places the average black at roughly the 16th percentile of the white IQ distribution.”

Really well, actually—in the 97th percentile on reading comprehension and the 87th in math.

In other words, the lengths of the individual vectors denote the percentile rle that each night played in the total density.

In height he gained from the 25 percentile to the 40 percentile.

The new measure is a relative measure, pegged to (approximately) how much the 33rd percentile is spending on various things.