Saturday, June 30, 2012

WORD OF THE DAY! 6/30/12.

percentile [per-sen-tahyl]
noun
1. One of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies.
adjective
2. Of or pertaining to a percentile or a division of a distribution by percentiles.
 
 EX. WARNING! Do not give youngster Joey your phone number or he will fill up your voice mail box with hundreds of calls about how his Rattata is in the top percentile.