percentile

(US centile) n (a) (in statistics) any of 99 points at which a range of data is divided to make 100 groups of equal size (统计学上的)百分位数. (b) any of these groups 百分位数之一: an examination score in the 85th percentile, ie a score higher than 85 per cent of all scores attained in an examination 第85百分位的考分(高於考试中总得分的85%的分数).


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