percentile en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- pər-sĕnʹ-tīl
- /pəˈsɛn.taɪl/ (UK)
- /pəɹˈsɛn.taɪl/
- /pɚˈsɛn.taɪl/ (US)
- (UK) audio
Etymology
Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.
Meanings
- Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
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Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
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 chart at all. Because it is impossible for researchers to determine what is the largest and smallest possible weight and length for babies, designers begin the charts at the fifth percentile and end them at the 95th percentile. This means 10% of babies are, like my son, unchartable.
2018 April 4, Elissa Strauss, “Growth charts for kids don’t measure up”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2018:She is highly intelligent—she has an IQ in the top percentile.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| percentiles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
pentile · vigintile · sextile · octile · tercile · septile · millile · median (2-quantile) · quintile · decile · tertile · ventile · centile · quartile · hexadecile · percentile (100) · permillile (1000)
Deriveds
equipercentile · percentile dice · percentiler · interpercentile · percentile rank
Hypernyms
Synonyms
Translations (30)
it percentile (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · da percentil (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · pt percentil (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · id presentil (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · sv percentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · mk перцентил (any of the ninety-nine points) · it percentile (any of the ninety-nine points) · ru перцентиль (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · sv percentil (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · ru перцентиль (any of the ninety-nine points) · et protsentiil (any of the ninety-nine points) · cs procentil (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · tl kabahagdanin (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · de Perzentil (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · id presentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · cs procentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · es percentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · tl kabahagdanin (any of the ninety-nine points) · pt percentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · fi persentiili (any of the ninety-nine points) · ru процентиль (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · id persentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · fi persentiili (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · ru центиль (any of the ninety-nine points) · ru центиль (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · de Perzentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · et protsentiil (any one of the hundred groups so divided) · da percentil (any of the ninety-nine points) · ru процентиль (any of the ninety-nine points) · id persentil (any one of the hundred groups so divided)