percent
pronunciation
How to pronounce percent in British English:
UK [pəˈsɛnt]
How to pronounce percent in American English:
US [pərˈsɛnt]
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- Noun:
- a proportion multiplied by 100
Word Origin
- percent
- 1560s, per cent, from Modern Latin per centum "by the hundred" (see per and hundred). Until early 20c. often treated as an abbreviation and punctuated accordingly.
Example
- 1. Credit card lending is up less than half a percent .
- 2. About 95 percent of that amount was for coal .
- 3. More than 40 percent of them were clinically depressed .
- 4. Heat production falls by 99 percent in the first year .
- 5. About ninety percent of these people are in poor countries .