1. (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; [syn: percentile, centile]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
percentile
n 1: (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 [syn: percentile, centile]