percentile

per·cen·tile /pəˈsentaɪl $ pər-/ noun [countableC] technical

one of 100 equal-sized parts that a group of people can be divided into – used especially when comparing people’s scores in a test or levels of health 百分位数〔尤用于比较测验成绩或健康水平〕

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percentile• The test scores can be expressed as standardised scores, age equivalents or as percentile ranks.• These recent percentile curves are based on large, nationally representative samples of children.• In general, children stay in the same percentile band they were in at birth.• Figure 2 shows the percentile proliferation indices obtained with the two methods.• Seven children who were above the third percentile had recently lost weight or were failing to thrive.• Okay, uh, what is your percentile?

From Longman Business Dictionary

percentileper·cen·tile /pəˈsentaɪlpər-/ noun [countableC]STATISTICS

one hundredth of a set of things or people, arranged in order on a scale

Our employees’ pay is at the 90th percentile of that offered by similar companies (=it is higher than the pay offered by 90% of similar companies).

→ see also decile , median , quartile

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