noun
- Any of the 99 values that divide a distribution of data into 100 equal parts; a percentile.
Usage: Commonly used in statistics and educational assessment.; Often used interchangeably with 'percentile,' though centile is more common in British English.
Examples
- A student scoring at the 85th centile performed better than 85% of test-takers.
- The child's height was at the 50th centile for her age group.
- Doctors use centile charts to track a baby's growth over time.
- His test score placed him in the 90th centile nationally.
- The data was divided into centiles to analyze income distribution across the population.