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Percent

//ˈpə(ː)(r)seɳʈ// adv, noun, prep_phrase

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). not-comparable

    "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."

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

    "only a small percent attain the top ranks"

  2. 2
    a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent wordnet
  3. 3
    One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.

    "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."

  4. 4
    The percent sign, %.
  5. 5
    An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.

    "[…]Several stocks in the Three Per Cents and Three Per Cents Reduced to be transferred into the name and to the credit of the prosecutor, without any authority to him (the traverser) to sell, negotiate, transfer or pledge the said 9000l. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities."

Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    Per hundred.

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

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