Percentile vs. Ventile — What's the Difference?

In statistics, a percentile (or a centile) is a score below which a given percentage of scores in its frequency distribution falls (exclusive definition) or a score at or below which a given percentage falls (inclusive definition). For example, the 50th percentile (the median) is the score below which (exclusive) or at or below which (inclusive) 50% of the scores in the distribution may be found.

Ventile, is a registered trademark used to brand a special high-quality woven cotton fabric first developed by scientists at the Shirley Institute in Manchester, England. Originally created to overcome a shortage of flax used for fire hoses and water buckets, its properties were also found to be ideal for pilots' immersion suits.Extra-long-staple (ELS) cotton fibres are used to form a low-twist yarn, which is then woven into a tight high-density textile to create a 100% cotton fabric, capable of providing an effective barrier against inclement weather.

Each of the 100 equal groups into which a population can be divided according to the distribution of values of a particular variable.

Any of the groups that result when a frequency distribution is divided into twenty groups of equal size.

Any of the groups that result when a frequency distribution is divided into 100 groups of equal size.

Any of the values that separate each of these groups.

Any of the values that separate each of these groups.

(statistics) Any of the nineteen points that divide an ordered distribution into twenty parts, each containing one twentieth of the population.

(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 twenty groups so divided.

(statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total