Definitions for percent
pərˈsɛntper·cent

Princeton's WordNet(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. percentage, percent, per centum, pctnoun

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

Wiktionary(4.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. percentnoun

   A part or other object per hundred

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

   Etymology: per centum.

2. percentnoun

   percentage.

   Etymology: per centum.

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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

How to pronounce percent?

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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. David Cockfield:

   China's probably going to have a 5 or 6 percent growth rate. It's a managed economy. It's not your free enterprise economy, and they will get their growth one way or another, i just don't see a huge impact. It's too far away ... It's probably wise on their part to do that if they want to keep (their economic growth) at 5 or 6 percent.

2. Daniel Glaser:

   When you look at difficulties that we know that they are having with respect to the transport, with respect to the extraction, I think it's fair to say they are no longer able to make money the way they used to be able to, (IS) has cut salaries to its fighters in Raqqa by up to 50 percent.

3. Andriy Zahorodniuk:

   There is a general common opinion in both the government and Congress that it should be ramped up, we do feel support and it's there. It's 100 percent.

4. Mickey Levy:

   If we get 175,000 or 180,000 (new jobs) and wages up three tenths of a percent, that significantly increases the probability that the Fed will raise rates in December.

5. Allen Campbell:

   So, 80 percent of what they eat is vegetables. [I buy] the freshest vegetables. If it’s not organic, I don’t use it, the other 20 percent is lean meats: grass-fed organic steak, duck every now and then, and chicken. As for fish, I mostly cook wild salmon.

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