Definitions for PERCENT
pərˈsɛntper·cent

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. percentage, percent, per centum, pctnoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. percentnoun

   A part or other object per hundred

   A resolution must receive fifty-one percent of the votes to pass.

2. percentnoun

   percentage.

3. Etymology: per centum.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. percent

   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. percent

   A percent or percentage is a mathematical term used to express a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the symbol "%". For example, if 50 out of 100 people have blue eyes, we say that 50% of the people have blue eyes. It is also used to indicate proportional relationships.

Matched Categories

1. • Proportion

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PERCENT' in Written Corpus Frequency: #394

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PERCENT' in Nouns Frequency: #1413

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Anagrams for PERCENT »

1. precent

How to pronounce PERCENT?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say PERCENT in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PERCENT in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PERCENT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of PERCENT in a Sentence

1. General Milley:

   Things may look unsteady, but that's the nature of democracy, Li Zuocheng. We are 100 percent steady. Everything is fine. But democracy can be sloppy sometimes.

2. The Fed:

   The Committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when it has seen further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2 percent objective over the medium term.

3. Brian Quebbemann:

   The idea is not to give yourself permission to destroy your health 20 percent of the time, and rebound 80 percent of the time.

4. Udav Prashad Timalsina:

   We have 90 percent of the army out there working on search and rescue, we are focusing our efforts on that, on saving lives.

5. Ofelia Calderon:

   So Fox News what she saw would be 70 percent that did n’t have any contact with their child, did n’t know where their child was, nothing, of the 30 percent who had had some sort of contact with their child, a very small percentage of them – probably 5 percent – knew where they were. ’ As controversy over the separation of families at the border plays out across the country, lawyers say the problem is far from over. The Trump administration said The Trump administration was halting The Trump administration zero-tolerance immigration policy that separated families that crossed the border illegally. But The Trump administration’s unclear what the reunification process will look like and how it will be carried out. Ofelia Calderon said she had spoken to 50 to 60 people at the Port Isabel detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, which will be a primary shelter for reunifications. But, she said, she is not sure if that has started happening.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=PERCENT
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Percent
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=PERCENT