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percentage
[ per-sen-tij ]
noun
- a rate or proportion per hundred.
- an allowance, commission, or rate of interest calculated by percent.
- a proportion in general:
Only a small percentage of the class will graduate with honors.
- gain; benefit; profit; advantage.
percentage
/ pəˈsɛntɪdʒ /
noun
- proportion or rate per hundred parts
- commerce the interest, tax, commission, or allowance on a hundred items
- any proportion in relation to the whole
- informal.profit or advantage
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Other Words From
- per·centaged adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of percentage1
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Example Sentences
Loyd’s on track for the best defensive rating of her career so far, and her assist percentage has even ticked up, despite playing next to a pair of primary ballhandlers in Sue Bird and Jordin Canada.
One particular sticking point was herd immunity, which occurs when a large percentage of the community is immune to a disease and ends up protecting those who aren’t.
That means the next mayor could be someone who nabs a relatively small percentage of the vote.
As the tool will also calculate the percentage of conversation dominated by each of your competitors, you can then dig deeper to analyze what the successful competitors are doing better in terms of branding.
Just a few weeks in, that CRO said, there is a slim chance they might only miss their original targets by a few percentage points.
By 2012, Democratic President Barack Obama owned the Asian-American vote, winning it by 47 percentage points.
Most importantly, they were all deleted long before that percentage could rise any higher.
And it has a high percentage of women who say their husbands forbid them from working.
With a .700 career winning percentage as a coach in college and the NFL, Harbaugh is a winner.
About half of Turkers live in the United States, a percentage that is increasing.
Results are in terms of bulk of precipitate, which must not be confused with percentage by weight.
The weight percentage can be found by referring to Purdy's tables, given later.
The percentage of gold to the notes—the main demand liability—has, of course, fallen from about 65 to 35 per cent.
The percentage of reserves to deposits, which marks the safety line for England, refers to the items in the banking department.
When a convenient number of coffee-beans is used (any multiple of 100), the percentage calculation is extremely easy.
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More About Percentage
What is a percentage?
Percentage is a rate or proportion per hundred, as in This graph shows the percentage of homes that have a microwave.
Percentage is also used more generally to mean any proportion, as in Studies have shown that a large percentage of people love cute animals.
A percent is one one-hundredth (1/100) of something. Percentage refers to the rate or proportion of that one hundred. Usually, you will see the word percentage used in math equations or statistics or when someone is measuring the increase and decrease in rates.
Informally, percentage can mean a gain or advantage, as in There is no percentage to be gained from lying to the sheriff.
Generally, percentage and percent can be used interchangeably when referring to vague proportions. However, the word percentage never follows an exact number. In this case, only percent can be used in The number of pet owners increased by 10 percent.
A percentile is any of the possible 100 equal parts a range of values can be divided into. A given percentile means that the percentage of all possible outcomes is lower or lesser than the given percentile. For example, if you score in the 92nd percentile of an exam, you scored higher than 92 percent of all other people who took the exam.
Example: After careful measuring, the percentage of people who hated pineapple on pizza was found to be significantly higher than first thought.
Where does percentage come from?
The first records of the word percentage come from around 1780. It combines the word percent, referring to “one-hundredth” or a rate per one hundred, and the suffix –age in the sense of “quantity, measure, or charge.” Percentage is a measurement of something per hundred.
Percentage is an incredibly common way we divide things into proportions. Some common things we express using percentage include how much of our daily fat a food contains, how much you should tip a waitperson, and how confident a weatherperson is that it will rain today.
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What are some other forms related to percentage?
- percentaged (adjective)
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How is percentage used in real life?
Percentage is a very commonly used measurement in rates and proportions.
Congrats Mumbai voters. 41 to 52% is actually nearly 25% increase in percentage. Big jump. Though a long distance to catch up.
— Dr. S.Y. Quraishi (@DrSYQuraishi) April 24, 2014
By far, the lowest percentage of athletes scoring below the threshold was at Wisconsin. Only 2/122 athletes scored lower than the threshold.
— Sara Ganim (@sganim) January 7, 2014
A surprisingly high percentage of our phone interviews have chickens in the background
— Planet FM (@PlanetAuckland) January 23, 2019
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By the end of the day, 80 percentage of the kittens had been adopted.
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