Definitions for percentage
pərˈsɛn tɪdʒper·cent·age

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. percentage, percent, per centum, pctnoun

   a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

2. share, portion, part, percentagenoun

   assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

   "he wanted his share in cash"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. percentagenoun

   The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

2. percentagenoun

   A share of the profits.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. percentagenoun

   Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

4. Etymology: From per centum, "for every hundred", + -age.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Percentage

   In mathematics, a percentage (from Latin: per centum, "by a hundred") is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%", although the abbreviations "pct.", "pct" and sometimes "pc" are also used. A percentage is a dimensionless number (pure number); it has no unit of measurement.

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1. percentage

   A percentage is a mathematical concept expressed as a fraction of 100. It is used to quantify or compare proportions or ratios in relation to the whole, which is represented by 100%. It can be used to express anything from grades, discounts, changes, and comparisons among other things. The symbol used to represent percentage is "%".

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Percentagenoun

   a certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred

2. Etymology: [Per cent + -age, as in average. See Per, and Cent.]

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1. Percentage

   In mathematics, a percentage is a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, “%”, or the abbreviation “pct.” For example, 45% is equal to 45/100, or 0.45. A related system which expresses a number as a fraction of 1,000 uses the terms "per mil" and "millage". Percentages are used to express how large/small one quantity is, relative to another quantity. The first quantity usually represents a part of, or a change in, the second quantity, which should be greater than zero. For example, an increase of $ 0.15 on a price of $ 2.50 is an increase by a fraction of 0.15/2.50 = 0.06. Expressed as a percentage, this is therefore a 6% increase. The word 'percent' means 'out of 100' or 'per 100'. Although percentages are usually used to express numbers between zero and one, any ratio can be expressed as a percentage. For instance, 111% is 1.11 and −0.35% is −0.0035. Although this is technically inaccurate as per the definition of percent, an alternative wording in terms of a change in an observed value is “an increase/decrease by a factor of...””

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Percentage

   per-sen′tāj, n. rate per hundred: an allowance of so much for every hundred.—adj. Percen′tile. [Cf. Cent.]

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1. percentage

   A known and specific proportion.

   The percentage of smokers was reducing every day..

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

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1. • Assets
   • Proportion

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'percentage' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3575

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'percentage' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2704

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'percentage' in Nouns Frequency: #1340

How to pronounce percentage?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of percentage in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of percentage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of percentage in a Sentence

1. Wade Smith:

   There is not a racist bone in Sylvia Hatchell body, a very high percentage of the people who have played for Sylvia Hatchell and who love Sylvia Hatchell are African-American women. Sylvia Hatchell is a terrific coach, and a truly world-class human being.

2. Hisham Abdel-Hamid:

   Her body was, as they say, like skin over bone, she had no percentage of fat at all, so the small pellets penetrated very easily.

3. Mark Muro:

   Rural areas suffer less in absolute terms but have much lower incomes, so the percentage hit is greater, this is consistent with the intuition in most research on climate impacts -- that poor places are more vulnerable and, while they lose less in absolute terms, they have even less they can afford to lose.

4. Florian Mueller:

   The conversation has to be what percentage of that chip price is justified, what the ruling makes clear is that what they have charged is outrageous.

5. Mark Spellman:

   Raytheon Co has been our number one holding in the defense sector, because they have more international sales, upwards of 40 percent of what they do now is non-US business. And that's the highest percentage of any defense contractor.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=percentage
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Percentage
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/percentage
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=percentage
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=percentage