percentile
per·cen·tile
noun
1.
(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
Origin
Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.
Phrases
- percentile dice
- percentile rank
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