Percentage vs. Percentile
Percentagenoun
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
Percentagenoun
A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
Percentagenoun
(informal) Benefit or advantage.
Percentagenoun
A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
Percentagenoun
a proportion multiplied by 100
Percentagenoun
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;
Percentagenoun
a rate, number, or amount in each hundred
Percentagenoun
any proportion or share in relation to a whole
Percentagenoun
an amount, such as an allowance or commission, that is a proportion of a larger sum of money
Percentagenoun
personal benefit or advantage
Percentage
In mathematics, a percentage (from Latin per centum ) is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, , although the abbreviations , and sometimes are also used.
Percentilenoun
(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
Percentilenoun
(statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
Percentilenoun
(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
Percentilenoun
each of the 100 equal groups into which a population can be divided according to the distribution of values of a particular variable.
Percentilenoun
each of the 99 intermediate values of a random variable which divide a frequency distribution into 100 such groups
Percentile
In statistics, a percentile (or a centile) is a score below which a given percentage of scores in its frequency distribution falls (exclusive definition) or a score at or below which a given percentage falls (inclusive definition). For example, the 50th percentile (the median) is the score below which (exclusive) or at or below which (inclusive) 50% of the scores in the distribution may be found.
