English Explanatory Dictionary

percent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
noun
  1. A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
  2. One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
  3. The percent sign, %.
  4. An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
prep_phrase
  1. Per hundred.

Pronunciation

/pəˈsɛnt/ /pɚˈsɛnt/ en-us-percent.ogg /pəˈsent/

Word forms

percent % pc pct p.c. p. c. per cent per centum per cent. percents

Etymology

From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).

Related words

per mille permille ‰ per myriad ‱ ppm ppb ppt ppq ampersand asterisk and asterism at sign backslash bullet dagger degree symbol number sign prime tilde underscore vertical bar pipe

Derived words

100 percent 51 percent 5 percenter 99.99 percent 99.9 percent 99 percent a hundred and ten percent a hundred percent any% cent percent give a hundred percent not be 100 percent on something one hundred percent one hundred percent American one-percent milk percentage percental percenter percentile percentual percentwise tenpercentery two-percent milk weight/volume percent percent-encode percent-encoding
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