different between percentile vs percent

English

Etymology

Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent +? -ile.

Noun

percentile (plural percentiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
2. (statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

   He is highly intelligent – he has an IQ in the top percentile.

Synonyms

• %ile

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Derived terms

• percentile dice
• percentile rank

Synonyms

• centile

Translations

Anagrams

• pencil tree

Italian

Etymology

percento +? -ile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /per.t??en?ti.le/
• Hyphenation: per?cen?tì?le

Noun

percentile m (plural percentili)

1. (statistics) percentile

English

Alternative forms

• p. c., p.c., pc, pct (abbreviation)
• per cent (mostly UK)
• per cent. (archaic)
• per centum

Etymology

From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adverb

percent (not comparable)

1. For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). [from 16th c.]
   • 2002, Leon Jaroff, Time, 8 May:

     Diane Watson has had a distinguished career in education and politics, and last year was elected to the House of Representatives, winning 75 percent of the vote in her Congressional district.

   • 2016, Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, 7 July:

     Twelve percent of the world’s population now relies directly or indirectly on the fisheries industry.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character %.

  50% denotes 50 percent.

• The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point, not by percent.

Derived terms

• percentage
• percentual
• percentwise

Noun

percent (plural percent or percents)

1. A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).

2. One part per hundred; one percent. [from 19th c.]
   • 2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin 2008, p. 254:

     And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay.

Translations

Prepositional phrase

percent

1. Per hundred.
   • 2014, Alan Tussy, Diane Koenig, Basic Mathematics for College Students with Early Integers (?ISBN), page 637:

     By how many percent did the cancer survival rate for breast cancer increase by 2008?

Usage notes

• Percent/per cent originated as a shortening of the Latin phrase per centum, “per hundred”, and historically the use of the word as a noun (as in “half a percent” or “percents”) was regarded as an error, though such use has now become so common that it is recognized by all other major dictionaries, and a few treat the word as being only a noun. Of those which recognize non-nounal uses, most label it an adverb and many also label it an adjective though it does not meet tests of adjectivity.

See also

• per mille, permille, ‰
• per myriad, ?
• ppm, ppb, ppt, ppq

Typography

References

• percent at OneLook Dictionary Search
• percent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• -nercept, precent

French

Verb

percent

1. third-person plural present indicative of percer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of percer

Hungarian

Etymology

percen +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?rt?s?nt]
• Hyphenation: per?cent

Verb

percent

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of percen