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PERCENTILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("percentile" is a kind of...):
grade; mark; score (a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance))
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Context examples:
Children were more likely to be in the 10th, or highest, percentile if their parents had only a high school diploma or equivalent (more than twice as likely) or were children of first-time mothers (almost twice as likely).
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
They found that, compared to fetuses in the 25th percentile of exposure to organochlorine pesticides, the fetuses of women with exposure in the 75th percentile had the most widespread growth reductions, with head circumference reduced by an average of 4.7 mm, abdominal circumference reduced by 3.5 mm, and femur length reduced by 0.6 mm.
(Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood linked to smaller fetal size, National Institutes of Health)
