Definitions for percentage
pərˈsɛn tɪdʒper·cent·age

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. percentage, percent, per centum, pct(noun)

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

2. share, portion, part, percentage(noun)

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

   "he wanted his share in cash"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. percentage(Noun)

   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. percentage(Noun)

   A share of the profits.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. percentage(Noun)

   Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Percentage(noun)

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

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

Freebase(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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 Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Percentage

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

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

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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. Niklas Agerup Stoerup:

   That is a quite high percentage.

2. Michael Petefish:

   This isn't just numbers on a sheet or percentage of trade or dollar value.

3. Hazel Blears:

   Only a very tiny percentage of those collected are ever seen by human eyes.

4. John Nicholson:

   If this were a matter of a few percentage points, I'd have less confidence.

5. Raghuram Rajan:

   We need two percentage points more growth to provide those jobs that are needed.

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