centimate

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Etymology

Follows from decimate and quintate according to Latin-derived numerical prefixes (see centi-).

Pronunciation

Verb

centimate (third-person singular simple present centimates, present participle centimating, simple past and past participle centimated)

  1. (statistics) To take a sub-sample of a sample so as to include in the sub-sample one out of every hundred (i.e. 1%) of the original sample.
    • 2015, Stefano Andreon, Brian Weaver, Bayesian Methods for the Physical Sciences, page 16:
      If independent samples are needed, it is useful to decimate (take one element every 10) or centimate (one in 100) the chain (known as thinning).
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