per centum
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of per centum
1555–65; < Latin: literally, by the hundred
Example Sentences
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This numerical equivalence results from the definition of the “percentage” unit, whose name is derived from the Latin phrase per centum meaning “by the hundred.”
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
It has a mortality that can go up to 14 per centum in unfavourable circumstances, but the disease is not more contagious than typhoid under hygienic surroundings.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
The mortality is about 90 per centum in some epidemics.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
Section seventeen of the original charter provided that twenty-five per centum of the subsidy bonds should be retained by the government until the entire line of the road was completed.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
Between 1809 and 1888 there were 37 coeliotomies with a maternal mortality of 86.5 per centum.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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