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percentile

noun

Meaning

  1. Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
  2. Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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