Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Out of each hundred; per hundred.
- noun One part in a hundred.
- noun A percentage or portion.
- noun Chiefly British Public securities yielding interest at a specified percentage.
- adjective Paying or demanding interest at a specified percentage.
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- noun A part or other object
per hundred - noun
percentage . - adjective Expressed in percents; usually together with a number.
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)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Find a fixed rate personal loan from a bank or peer lending company like Lending Club, which offers personal unsecured loans for paying off high interest debt at rates starting at 7.93 percent APR; which is 53 percent lower than the overall national credit card APR of 16.81 percent* and can translate into thousands in savings over the life of a loan.
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Of course, Ahmadinejad has won, and then, well, there may be a 10 percent -10 percent\ of what?
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Non-weather related CO fatalities associated with generator use are also on the rise — by 53 percent from 2004 to 2005, and another 41 percent from 2005 to 2006.
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In addition, while only two of the 14 airlines outsourced 80 percent or more in 2005, by late last year nine of the 14 were outsourcing between 80 percent and 94 percent.
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January 2008: 2.4 percent; December 2009: 26.7 percent*
The Seattle Times 2010
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There is also a 30 percent discount on eye exams and a 10 percent** discount on contacts.
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The rate of major congenital malformations identified in the group that was exposed to metoclopramide during the first trimester was 5.3 percent% (182 of 3458 infants), as compared with a rate of 4.9 percent (3834 of 78,245 infants).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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So if we had 100 lenders and 10 were lending a lot, 60 lending a little, and 30 not lending at all, then the mode average would be "Banks that lend a little" and we could say that 60 percent (now you see why I used a total of 100 ...) are lending a little, 10 percent are lending a lot, and 30 percent\% not at all.
Salon 2009
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For example, Silver found that the percentage of 18-to-34-year-olds on the Battleground poll (17 percent) was much smaller than on the CPS survey of voters from 2004 (24 percent*).
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For example, Silver found that the percentage of 18-to-34-year-olds on the Battleground poll (17 percent) was much smaller than on the CPS survey of voters from 2004 (24 percent*).
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