Percentile vs Equivalent - What's the difference?
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(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
(statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
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(mathematics) Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence; equinumerous.
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(mathematics) Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
(chemistry) Having the equal ability to combine.
(cartography) Of a map, equal-area.
(geometry) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
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(chemistry) An equivalent weight.
As nouns the difference between percentile and equivalent
is that percentile is (statistics) any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population while equivalent is equivalent.As an adjective equivalent is
equivalent.percentile
English
(wikipedia percentile)Noun
(en noun)- He is highly intelligent – he has an IQ in the top percentile.
Abbreviations
*Derived terms
* percentile rankCoordinate terms
* quantile ** centile/percentile ** vigintile ** duodecile ** decile ** nonile ** octile ** septile ** sextile ** quintile ** quartile ** tercile/tertileAnagrams
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(wikipedia equivalent)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent .
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- Finite sets A and B are equivalent sets only when n''(A) = ''n''(B) ''i.e. , the number of elements in A and B are equal.
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- All enumerable sets are equivalent to each other, but not to any finite set.
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- Equivalent' sets should, by rights, have the same "number" of elements. For this reason we sometimes say that '''equivalent sets have the same ''cardinality .
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- The equivalence theorem: If both M is equivalent''' to a subset N1 of N and N is '''equivalent''' to a subset M1 of M, then the sets M and N are '''equivalent to each other.
- A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
Usage notes
* (en-usage-equal)Derived terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent .