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per·cent
also per cent (pər-sĕnt′)adv.
Out of each hundred; per hundred.
n.
1. pl. percent also per cent One part in a hundred: The report states that 42 percent of the alumni contributed to the endowment. Also called per centum.
2. pl. percents A percentage or portion: She has invested a large percent of her salary.
3. percents Chiefly British Public securities yielding interest at a specified percentage.
adj.
Paying or demanding interest at a specified percentage: a 2.25 percent checking account.
[Short for Early Modern English per centum (formed on the model of Italian per cento, for (every) hundred) : Latin per, through, by; see per + centum, hundred; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.]
Usage Note: Statistically speaking, a quantity can be increased by any percentage but cannot be decreased by more than 100 percent. Once pollution has been reduced by 100 percent, for example, it ceases to exist. In defiance of this logic, however, advertisers sometimes refer to a 150 percent decrease in lost luggage or a new dental rinse that reduces plaque on teeth by over 300 percent. Presumably what is implied by the latter is that the new rinse is three times as effective as some other rinse, but such constructions are still subject to criticism as illogical. · Percent can take a singular or plural verb, depending on how the quantity being described is viewed. Very often what determines the form of the verb is the noun nearest to it. Thus one might say Eighty percent of the legislators are going to vote against the bill or Eighty percent of the legislature is set to vote the bill down. In the second sentence the group of legislators is considered as a body, not as individuals. When percent is used without a following prepositional phrase, either a singular or plural verb is acceptable.
per cent
(pə ˈsɛnt)adv
Also: per centum in or for every hundred. Symbol: %
n
1. a percentage or proportion
2. (Stock Exchange) (often plural) securities yielding a rate of interest as specified: he bought three percents.
[C16: from Medieval Latin per centum out of every hundred]
percentage
– per centWhen you express an amount as a percentage of a whole, you say how many parts the amount would have if the whole had 100 equal parts. You write a percentage as a number followed by per cent or by the symbol %. So, for example, if there are 1000 people living in a village and 250 of them are children, you say that 25 per cent or 25% of the people in the village are children.
What is the percentage of nitrogen in air?
He won 28.3 per cent of the vote.
Per cent is sometimes written as one word, especially in American English.
Remember that 90 percent of most food is water.
You also use percentage to show approximately how large or small an amount is as a proportion of a whole. For example, you can say that an amount is a large percentage or a small percentage of the whole.
The illness affects only a tiny percentage of babies.
When percentage is used like this in front of the plural form of a noun, you use a plural form of a verb after it.
A large percentage of the students do not speak English at home.
When percentage is used in front of a singular form or an uncountable noun, you use a singular form of a verb after it.
Only a small percentage of the money is given to charity.
A high percentage of their income was spent on rent.
Translations
بِالمِئَه، في المائَهبِالْـمِائةِ
procento
procent
prosenttia
postotak
prósent, hundraîstala
百につき
...퍼센트만큼
procent
เปอร์เซ็นต์
phần trăm
per cent
[pəˈsent] N → por ciento20 per cent → el 20 por ciento
it has increased by eight per cent → ha aumentado (en) un ocho por ciento
there's a ten per cent discount → hay un descuento del diez por cien(to), hay un diez por ciento de descuento
the population is 90 per cent Roman Catholic → el 90 por ciento de la población es católica
a half (a) per cent cut in interest rates → un recorte de un cero coma cinco por ciento en los tipos de interés
100 per cent → cien por cien
he's not feeling a hundred per cent today → hoy no se encuentra al cien por cien
per cent
percent [pɜːrˈsɛnt] n → pour cent
fifty per cent → cinquante pour cent
by 15 per cent → de 15 pour cent
to fall by five per cent → baisser de cinq pour cent
to rise five per cent → augmenter de cinq pour cent
fifty per cent → cinquante pour cent
by 15 per cent → de 15 pour cent
to fall by five per cent → baisser de cinq pour cent
to rise five per cent → augmenter de cinq pour cent
per cent
, (US) percentn → Prozent nt; per cent sign (Typ) → Prozentzeichen nt; what per cent? → wie viel Prozent?; 20 per cent → 20 Prozent; a 10 per cent discount → 10 Prozent Rabatt; a ten per cent increase → eine zehnprozentige Steigerung; to increase something by 10 per cent → etw um 10 Prozent erhöhen; to give 100 per cent → 100 Prozent geben; I’m 99 per cent certain that … → ich bin (zu) 99 Prozent sicher, dass …
per
(pəː) preposition1. out of. We have less than one mistake per page.
2. for each. The dinner will cost $15 per person.
3. in each. six times per week.
per cent (pəˈsent) adverb , noun (often written % with figures) (of numbers, amounts etc) stated as a fraction of one hundred. Twenty-five per cent of one hundred and twenty is thirty; 25% of the people did not reply to our letters.