Associations to the word «Centile»

Wiktionary

CENTILE, noun. Shortened form of percentile.

Dictionary definition

CENTILE, noun. (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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats