What does percentage mean?
Definitions for percentage
pərˈsɛn tɪdʒper·cent·age
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Princeton's WordNet
percentage, percent, per centum, pct(noun)
a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
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
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.
Etymology: From per centum, "for every hundred", + -age.
percentage(Noun)
A share of the profits.
She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
Etymology: From per centum, "for every hundred", + -age.
percentage(Noun)
Benefit or advantage.
There was no percentage in staying at home.
Etymology: From per centum, "for every hundred", + -age.
Webster Dictionary
Percentage(noun)
a certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred
Etymology: [Per cent + -age, as in average. See Per, and Cent.]
Freebase
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
Percentage
per-sen′tāj, n. rate per hundred: an allowance of so much for every hundred.—adj. Percen′tile. [Cf. Cent.]
Editors Contribution
percentage
A known and specific proportion.
The percentage of smokers was reducing every day..
Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'percentage' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3575
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'percentage' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2704
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Rank popularity for the word 'percentage' in Nouns Frequency: #1340
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of percentage in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of percentage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of percentage in a Sentence
We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers, if you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.
When economists run various economic models, they get estimates that it will slash U.S. GDP only by 0.1 percentage point, that would be true if this tariffs would be imposed only for a year. But you don't know how long this will continue. Such uncertainties will surely affect companies' spending and hiring plans. Markets are worried the economy may lose momentum earlier than previously thought.
The issue is, what percentage of capacity are we operating at, in the third quarter and in the fourth quarter.
This is that magic moment that people have been waiting for where they are like, wow, nobody grows like SAP, but can I get some margin out of this growth? we are going to give you a (percentage) point per year between now and 2023. And I think our shareholders are going to be super-psyched.
It seems to me that they (the Irish government) were quite prepared to throw the peace process under the bus for the sake of a few percentage points in an opinion poll, that is a disgraceful approach.
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Translations for percentage
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- النسبة المئوية, نسبة مئويةArabic
- percentatgeCatalan, Valencian
- procentoCzech
- Prozentsatz, AnteilGerman
- ποσοστό, εκατοστιαία αναλογίαGreek
- porcentajeSpanish
- protsentEstonian
- osuus, prosenttiosuus, hyöty, prosenttiFinnish
- pourcentageFrench
- porcentaxeGalician
- प्रतिHindi
- percentualeItalian
- ōrautangaMāori
- peratusanMalay
- процентOssetian, Ossetic
- procent, korzyśćPolish
- percentagemPortuguese
- процентRussian
- procenthalt, andel, procentsatsSwedish
- tỷ lệ phần trămVietnamese
- 百分比Chinese
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