Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.
- noun The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.
- noun A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part.
- noun An amount, such as an allowance, duty, or commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales.
- noun Informal Advantage; gain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rate or proportion per hundred: as, the percentage of loss; the percentage of oxygen in some compound, or of pure metal in an ore; specifically, in com., an allowance, duty, commission, or rate of interest on a hundred; loosely, proportion in general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Com.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
amount ,number orrate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. - noun A share of the profits.
- noun informal
Benefit oradvantage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
- noun assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ma's trust index fell 1.7 percentage points from last month to 37.1 percent, against his distrust index of 44.7 percent - down 2.4 percentage points.
Taipei Times 2010
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Ma's trust index fell 1.7 percentage points from last month to 37.1 percent, against his distrust index of 44.7 percent - down 2.4 percentage points.
Taipei Times 2010
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If a certain percentage is not normal then you are not removing enough of them and patients might die from missed diseased cases.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Now the “Most Reversed” Circuit? 2010
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If a certain percentage is not normal then you are not removing enough of them and patients might die from missed diseased cases.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Now the “Most Reversed” Circuit? 2010
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For every given level of your output a certain percentage is direct and indirect energy costs.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Am Tired of Hearing About Liquidity Traps 2010
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Though I still think assigning a percentage is a meaningless estimate.
My Favorite Economic Indicator, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This percentage is the highest rate in the 51 years that these estimates have been released.
Rabbi Steve Gutow: 43 Million Reasons for Congress to Get Serious Rabbi Steve Gutow 2010
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Some regions with "higher" gas prices still only spend 2% of their median income on gas, while the percentage is as high as 16% in Wilcox County, Alabama.
Gas Price Impact Map: Rural US Getting Slammed By $4 Gas - The Consumerist 2008
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I think since the percentage is the same amoung the whites and the blacks.
Exit polls: Nearly half in both states say Wright an issue 2008
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I think the percentage is about half of what he gets – 23.5%.
chained_bear commented on the word percentage
I'm kind of amazed this word hasn't yet been added. Today is November 20, 2008. (For Wordieternity.)
November 20, 2008