percent

English

Alternative forms

• per cent (mostly UK)
• per cent. (archaic)

Etymology

Latin per centum (“for every hundred”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pəˈsɛnt/, SAMPA: /p@"sEnt/
• (US) IPA: /pɜɹ.sɛnt/, SAMPA: /p3r.sEnt/

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Noun

percent (plural percent or percents)

1. A part or other object per hundred

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

2. percentage.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character %.

  50% denotes 50 percent.

• The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point, not by percent.

Derived terms

• percentage
• percentwise

Translations

a part or other object per hundred

Afrikaans: persent Albanian: përqind (sq) Arabic: في المئة (ar) (fii 'l-mi'a), بالمئة (ar) (bi-'l-mi'a) Armenian: տոկոս (hy) (tokos) Asturian: por cientu (ast) Azeri: faiz (az) Bulgarian: процент (bg) Catalan: per cent (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 百分之... (cmn) (bǎi fēnzhī...) (the number follows it, e.g. 30% - 百分之三十 bǎi fēnzhī sānshí) Croatian: posto (hr), postotak (hr) m. Czech: procento (cs) n. Danish: procent (da) Dutch: procent (nl) n., percent (nl) n. Esperanto: procento (eo), pocento (eo), elcento (eo) Finnish: prosentti (fi), sadasosa (fi) French: pourcent (fr) m. German: Prozent (de) n. Greek: τοις εκατό (el) (tois ekató)

Hebrew: אחוז (he) Hindi: फ़ीसदी (hi) (fīsadī) Hungarian: százalék (hu) Icelandic: hundraðshluti (is) m., prósenta (is) f., hundraðstala (is) f. Italian: per cento (it) Japanese: パーセント (ja) (pāsento) Korean: 퍼센트 (peosenteu) Latin: per centum (la) Macedonian: насто (mk) (násto), процент (mk) (procént) Polish: procent (pl) m. Portuguese: percento (pt) Romanian: procent n., la sută Russian: процент (ru) (procént) m. Scottish Gaelic: às a' cheud (gd) Serbian: posto (sr), odsto (sr), postotak (sr) m. Spanish: por ciento Swedish: procent (sv) c. Telugu: శాతం (te) (Saatam) Turkish: faiz (tr), yüzde (tr) Urdu: جیصدی (ur) (fīṣadī)

See also

• per mille, permille, ‰
• per myriad, ‱
• ppm, ppb, ppt, ppq

Typography

ampersand ( & ) asterisk ( * ) and asterism ( ⁂ ) at sign ( @ ) backslash ( \ )

bullet ( •) dagger ( † ‡ ) degrees ( ° ) number sign ( # )

prime ( ′ ) tilde ( ~ ) underscore ( _ ) vertical bar/pipe ( | )

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Verb

percent

1. Third-person plural present of percer.