percent

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Latin per centum (“for every hundred”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛnt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɜɹ.sɛnt/

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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
• Arabic: في المائة (fi 'l-míʾa), بالمائة (bi-'l-míʾa)
• Armenian: տոկոս (tokos)
• Asturian: por cientu
• Azeri: faiz (az)
• Belarusian: працэнт m (pracént), адсотак m (adsótak)
• Bulgarian: процент (bg) (procént)
• Catalan: per cent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百分之... (zh) (bǎi fēnzhī...) (the number follows it, e.g. 30% - 百分之三十 bǎi fēnzhī sānshí)

• Czech: procento (cs) n
• Danish: procent (da)
• Dutch: procent (nl) n, percent (nl) n
• Esperanto: procento, pocento, elcento
• Estonian: protsent
• Finnish: prosentti (fi), sadasosa
• French: pourcent (fr) m
• Georgian: პროცენტი (proc’enti)
• German: Prozent (de) n
• Greek: τοις εκατό (el) (tois ekató)
• Hebrew: אחוז (he) (akhúz)
• Hindi: फ़ीसदी (fīsadī)
• Hungarian: százalék (hu)
• Icelandic: hundraðshluti (is) m, prósenta f, hundraðstala f
• Italian: per cento (it)
• Japanese: パーセント (ja) (pāsento)
• Kazakh: пайыз (kk) (payız), процент (protsent)

• Khmer: ភាគរយ (pʰiek rɔɔy)
• Korean: 퍼센트 (ko) (peosenteu)
• Lao: ເປີເຊັນ (pə̀ːsén)
• Latin: per centum
• Latvian: procents m
• Lithuanian: nuošimtis, procentas m
• Lojban: ce'i
• Macedonian: насто (násto), процент (procént)
• Malay: peratus
• Persian: درصد (fa) (darsad)
• Polish: procent (pl) m
• Portuguese: percento
• Romanian: procent (ro) n, la sută
• Russian: процент (ru) m (procént)
• Scottish Gaelic: às a' cheud
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посто, одсто, постотак, проценат

  Roman: posto, odsto, postotak, procenat

• Slovak: percento n
• Slovene: odstotek m
• Spanish: por ciento, porciento m
• Swedish: procent (sv) c
• Telugu: శాతం (śataṁ)
• Thai: เปอร์เซ็นต์ (bper-sen)
• Turkish: faiz (tr), yüzde (tr)
• Ukrainian: відсоток m (vidsótok), процент (uk) m (procént)
• Urdu: جیصدی (fīṣadī)
• Vietnamese: phần trăm (vi)

Adjective

percent (not comparable)

1. Expressed in percents; usually together with a number.

   I got a ten percent raise!

   The whisky usually contains over fifty percent alcohol by volume in the maturing casks, while the commercial brands are diluted to 40 to 45 percent.

Translations

expressed in percent

• Finnish: prosentin, prosenttia (fi) (genitive/partitive of noun)

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 indicative of percer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of percer