percentile per‧cen‧tile [pəˈsentaɪl ǁ pər-] noun [countable] STATISTICS
one hundredth of a set of things or people, arranged in order on a scale:
• Our employees' pay is at the 90th percentile of that offered by similar companies (= it is higher than the pay offered by 90% of similar companies ) .
— see also decile, median, quartile* * *
percentile UK US /pəˈsentaɪl/ noun [C]
► GRAPHS & CHARTS, MEASURES one of the 100 equal parts that a set of people or things is divided into, when you are comparing a particular characteristic relating to them: »
His salary put him in the 75th percentile of chief executives.
»The investment fund is ranked in the top fourth percentile in its category.
Financial and business terms. 2012.