centile

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Moving upward from one centile to another, however, may suggest a weight-gain problem.

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  1. An object or term occupying a place whose ordinal corresponds to 100 or a multiple of 100.

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  • Our communities, with one or two exceptions, fall in the bottom three centile rungs in the socio-economic grading of Israeli communities. —  Dissident Voice
  • It was originally "1 per centile" meaning one per hundred units. —  GeekLikeMe.net
  • Over time it was shorted from 1 per centile to 1 per cent. —  GeekLikeMe.net
  • Their average age was 16 and their body mass index ranged from 35.1 to 37.3, which is over the 97th centile for their age and sex and indicates a severe level of obesity. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • After one fetus died and the placenta became increasingly echogenic, the patient improved clinically, and weekly ultrasound assessments of the intact co-twin from 22 weeks onwards demonstrated symmetrical fetal growth along the 10th centile. —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
 

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  1. Latin centum, a hundred, + -ile.
 

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