percent
IPA: pɝsˈɛnt
noun
- A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
- One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
- The percent sign, %.
- An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
adverb
- For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
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Examples of "percent" in Sentences
- What percent of the parts are recyclable
- The percent is in relation to the table width.
- The outback covers 70 percent of the continent.
- Eighty percent of the fish in the outbreak died.
- The ratio was increased by a beggarly 2 percent.
- The temperature was, and the humidity was 42 percent.
- January 2008: 2.4 percent; December 2009: 26.7 percent*
- About 62 percent of the population of the village is educated.
- A staggering 45 percent of the population is considered malnourished.
- There is also a 30 percent discount on eye exams and a 10 percent** discount on contacts.
- We made up probably 80 to 90 percent of the town's population, so it was a vaunt to say so.
- Of course, Ahmadinejad has won, and then, well, there may be a 10 percent -10 percent\ of what?
- The pound looks extremely overvalued at present and probably needs to fall by 20 percent or so in order to restore lost competitiveness.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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*).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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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