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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
percent (plural percent or percents)
- A part or other object per hundred.
- A candidate must receive at least half a percent of the votes in the first round to earn a spot on the ballot for the next round.
- A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
- only a small percent attain the top ranks
Usage notes[edit]
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
a part or other object per hundred
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Prepositional phrase[edit]
percent
- Per hundred.
- 2014, Alan Tussy, Diane Koenig, Basic Mathematics for College Students with Early Integers (→ISBN), page 637:
- By how many percent did the cancer survival rate for breast cancer increase by 2008?
- 2014, Alan Tussy, Diane Koenig, Basic Mathematics for College Students with Early Integers (→ISBN), page 637:
Usage notes[edit]
- Percent/per cent originated as a shortening of the Latin phrase per centum, "per hundred", and historically the use of the word as a noun (as in "half a percent" or "percents") was regarded as an error,[1] though such use has now become so common that it is recognized by all other major dictionaries,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and a few treat the word as being only a noun.[8] Of those which recognize non-nounal uses, most label it an adverb[2][3][4][5][6] and many also label it an adjective[2][3][4][7] though it does not meet tests of adjectivity.
See also[edit]
Typography
- prime ( ′ )
- tilde ( ~ )
- underscore ( _ )
- vertical bar/pipe ( | )
References[edit]
- percent at OneLook Dictionary Search
- percent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ^ Various older pedagogic works, e.g. Charles Harvey Raymond's Essentials of English composition (1923), page 461, prescribe: "Per cent is an adverb meaning in the hundred. [...] Percentage is a noun meaning rate per cent."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “percent” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “percent” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 “percent” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 “percent” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 “percent” (US) / “percent” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 “percent” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 “percent” (US) / “percent” (UK) in Macmillan Dictionary
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
percent
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
percent
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of percen
- past participle of percen
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