percent

Meanings

Adverb

  • For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).

Noun

  • A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
  • One part per hundred; one percent.

Prepositional phrase

Origin

  • From New Latin per centum ("by the hundred").

Modern English dictionary

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