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Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
Derek Bok

Meaning of "percentile" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERCENTILE

percentile  [pəˈsɛntaɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERCENTILE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Percentile is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERCENTILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Percentile

A percentile is a measure used in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall. For example, the 20th percentile is the value below which 20 percent of the observations may be found. The term percentile and the related term percentile rank are often used in the reporting of scores from norm-referenced tests. For example, if a score is in the 86th percentile, it is higher than 86% of the other scores. The 25th percentile is also known as the first quartile, the 50th percentile as the median or second quartile, and the 75th percentile as the third quartile. In general, percentiles and quartiles are specific types of quantiles.

Definition of percentile in the English dictionary

The definition of percentile in the dictionary is one of 99 actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into 100 groups with equal frequencies; the 90th percentile is the value of a variable such that 90% of the relevant population is below that value Also called: centile.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERCENTILE


Antheil
ˈæntaɪl
biquintile
ˌbaɪˈkwɪntaɪl
centile
ˈsɛntaɪl
freestyle
ˈfriːˌstaɪl
gentile
ˈdʒɛntaɪl
hairstyle
ˈhɛəˌstaɪl
hostile
ˈhɒstaɪl
infantile
ˈɪnfənˌtaɪl
infertile
ɪnˈfɜːtaɪl
lifestyle
ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl
pentyl
ˈpɛntaɪl
quantile
ˈkwɒntaɪl
quintile
ˈkwɪntaɪl
stile
staɪl
style
staɪl
tactile
ˈtæktaɪl
textile
ˈtɛkstaɪl
tile
taɪl
utile
ˈjuːtaɪl
versatile
ˈvɜːsəˌtaɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERCENTILE

perceivable
perceivably
perceive
perceived
perceived noise decibel
perceiver
percentage
percentage distribution
percentage point
percental
percentile ranking
percept
perceptibility
perceptible
perceptibly
perception
perceptional
perceptive
perceptively
perceptiveness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERCENTILE

Castile
chrysotile
contractile
cortile
ductile
erectile
fertile
futile
interquartile
inutile
mercantile
motile
pantile
portatile
projectile
quartile
reptile
rutile
subtile
untile

Synonyms and antonyms of percentile in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «percentile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERCENTILE

Find out the translation of percentile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of percentile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «percentile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

百分
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

percentil
570 millions of speakers

English

percentile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रतिशतक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المئين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

процентиль
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

percentil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শতকরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

percentile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Persentil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Perzentil
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パーセンタイル値
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

백분위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Persentase
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phần trăm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சதமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टक्केवारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

persentil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

percentile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

percentyla
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

процентиль
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

percentila
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκατοστημόριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

persentiel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

percentil
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

persentilen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of percentile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERCENTILE»

The term «percentile» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.928 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERCENTILE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about percentile

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4 QUOTES WITH «PERCENTILE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word percentile.
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Derek Bok
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
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Maggie Gallagher
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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Chad Kroeger
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
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Stephen Rodrick
I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERCENTILE»

Discover the use of percentile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to percentile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Zero Percentile
Zero Percentile is a heady cocktail of the fascinating adventures of Pankaj, a less favoured son of destiny, across two completely different countries, India and Russia.
Neeraj Chhibba, 2009
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Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and ...
Essentially, then, the use of linear T-scores makes the relationship of percentile ranks to T-scores unique for each scale. Percentile Ranks A percentile rank gives an individual's relative position within the norm group. Percentile ranks are very ...
Paul J. Frick, Christopher T. Barry, Randy W. Kamphaus, 2009
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WISC-IV Advanced Clinical Interpretation
TABLE 4 Relation of Composite Scores to Standard Deviations from Mean and Percentile Rank Equivalents Composite Scores Number of SDs from the Mean Percentile Rank Equivalent 145 þ3 99.9 140 þ2 2/3 99.6 135 þ2 1/3 99 130 þ2 98  ...
Lawrence G. Weiss, Donald H. Saklofske, Aurelio Prifitera, 2006
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Principles of Medical Statistics
chloride value of 95, which occupies the ascending cumulative relative frequencies between .0844 and .1054 in Table 4.1, could be called the 9th percentile, but would usually be called the 10th. 4.2.5.1 Quantiles — Certain percentiles are ...
Alvan R. Feinstein, 2001
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Statistics Using SPSS: An Integrative Approach
Likewise,when applied to continuous variables,in practice,the cumulative percent and the percentile rank provide similar results. Given their respective definitions, the cumulative percent value will generally be larger than the percentile rank.
Sharon Lawner Weinberg, Sarah Knapp Abramowitz, 2008
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Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Intelligence
As can be seen in Figure 5.1, a Deviation IQ of 85, a Tscore of 40, a Scaled Score of 7, and a Standard Age Score of 42 all represent the same level of performance ! These scores are also all at the 16th percentile rank (see Figure 5.1).
Randy W. Kamphaus, 2005
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Barron's PCAT: How to Prepare for the Pharmacy College ...
Students receive two scores in each section of the PCAT, the scaled score and the percentile score. Additionally, a scaled score and per- centile score are computed and reported as a composite score. The scaled score is computed from the ...
Marie A. Chisholm, 2002
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A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Edition
operators, many of whom had recently arrived to the USA from Asia and were shorter than the 5th percentile US female. Many operators had to stretch to be able to get to the eyepiece and they could not put their feet on the floor. We measured ...
Martin Helander, 1997
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Barron's how to Prepare for the MAT, Miller Analogies Test
Because raw scores are virtually uninterpretable taken by themselves, the test publisher provides percentile equivalents for various groups of individuals who have taken the MAT. What is a percentile equivalent? It is the number of people out ...
Robert J. Sternberg, 2005
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Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive ...
Percentile scores are a popular means for reporting test performance as they are easy to understand; a percentile rank is a ... For example, a percentile rank of 84 indicates that the child scored as well as or better than 84% of the norm group.
Andrés Martin, Fred R. Volkmar, Melvin Lewis, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERCENTILE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term percentile is used in the context of the following news items.
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Centre for Talented Youth is DCU's camp for Ireland's best and …
I think CTYI attendees are the top 5 percentile in the country in standardised tests. My time at CTYI has finished as of July 10, so forgive me if I ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
2
Reid Hospital was born 110 years ago
In 2006, Reid Hospital scored in the 99th percentile of hospitals across the country meeting federal quality standards. Its commitment to superb ... «Palladium-Item, Jul 15»
3
The US$26 trillion debt problem that is crushing competitiveness in …
That valuation has A shares trading at 27 times EV/ebitda, leaving them languishing near the bottom of the heap in the 93rd percentile. «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
4
From plucking tea in Ooty to management lessons at IIM-L
After belling the CAT with 94.5 percentile, the call from IIM-L evoked part joy part worries. Although it sounded like a fairy tale, the family went ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
5
Swansea girl goes from field day to AAU Junior Olympics
She fell in the top 90 percentile on recent state testing. Last academic year, Na'Zariah also won the school's fourth-grade spelling bee, danced ... «Belleville News-Democrat, Jul 15»
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Standing desks at schools: The solution to the childhood obesity …
The effect was even more significant for children who were overweight or obese (above the 85th percentile for weight). They burned 32 percent ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
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Area briefs
And, Seifried and Brew, a leading community bank risk management firm, named Minster Bank in its 2014 Top 15th Percentile of Community ... «Troy Daily News, Jul 15»
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Meet Anika Moa and Natasha Utting's little treasure
“He weighed 3.5kg, bang on 50th percentile when he was born,” says Natasha. “He was such a little, little baby and now look how giant he is! «Woman's Day New Zealand, Jul 15»
9
Carpe diem, CAT aspirants
Do not set targets for hitting 98th percentile by week 10, 99th percentile by week 15 and then climb up to 99.7 percentile by D-day. «PaGaLGuY, Jul 15»
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More IITs & IIMs open across India: Here's why it's important to …
... to replicate performance around some key drivers —specifically attracting top faculty, marquee industry names and top percentile of students. «Economic Times, Jul 15»

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