Definition of
Percent
- (noun, linkdef) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
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Synonyms of Percent
Alternate forms of Percent
Hyponyms: absentee rate, occupancy rate, unemployment rate, vacancy rate
Hypernyms: proportion
Origin of the word Percent
- 1568, per cent, from Mod.L. per centum "by the hundred" (see per and hundred). Until early 20c. often treated as an abbreviation and punctuated accordingly. Percentage is first recorded 1789; sense of "profit, advantage" is from 1862; percentile is from 1889. more
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Words that sound like Percent
paragonite, parchment, persian deity, personate, personhood, pharaoh's ant, phrygian deity, preachment, pregnant, prescient, present, present-day, press agent, priacanthidae, prismatoid, prismoid, procyonid, procyonidae, proximate, proximity, pursuant, pyracanth, pyracantha
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