per
∞
1.0
- adposition
- /pɜr/
:
por
- We have one room available, and it's $1,000 per night.
- per year
- per capita
- per day
A billion a day, Three per person per day.
- A billion a day, Three per person per day.
- Any kind of Google Adwords, they ask you to pay per click typically.
- It has the most accessories per gun in the industry.
- They reportedly closed one new investment per day last year.
- Hey, how many nappies are thrown away per minute globally?
Examples
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Usually, the use of 4 hours or more per night can give symptom relief.
Academic text (2011) -
Any kind of Google Adwords, they ask you to pay per click typically.
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A billion a day, Three per person per day.
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You deliver five books per year.
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The most common size was 100 cards per box, although many were smaller or larger.
Academic text (2008) -
Questions included the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the name of the brand.
Academic text (2011) -
And this is the amount of carbon emission per unit GDP.
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Most people here live on $2 per day, and a concrete block costs 45 cents.
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It has the most accessories per gun in the industry.
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The speed limit is 60 miles per hour, which means you must drive at that pace.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Showing a rate or amount per unit, for example per hour
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
11
4.1
Average amount of money each person gets in a place during a year
- Specialized
7
3.4
A unit that measures pressure equal to one pound of force on one square inch
4
4.1
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
- Specialized
1
2.8
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
A measure of how many billion math calculations a computer does each second
- Archaic
A unit equal to one thousand cycles per second, now called kilohertz
- Archaic
A unit equal to one million cycles per second for measuring radio frequencies
- Specialized
A measure of how fast a computer does one million math calculations each second
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
- Specialized
A measure of computer speed equal to one trillion math calculations every second
Surface Forms
Etymology
Per comes from the Latin word per meaning 'for each' or 'through', and you can see this in the word percent, which originally meant 'per' hundred. So per hour or per day means 'for each' hour or day.