percent
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1.0
- noun
- /pərˈsɛnt/
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por ciento
- Global silicon wafer supply lost 25 percent of capacity because of damage at two key facilities.
- 50 percent
- 60 percent
- 80 percent
So to your point, one billion percent, well, those stories too,
- So to your point, one billion percent, well, those stories too,
- OK, that's that's a quarter of a percent a month.
- Typically it's a few percent a year, right?
- And this is the best nought percent balance transfer cards.
- And that means that non Africans all have maybe a couple percent Neanderthal DNA.
- So there's a good chance this half percent fee affects us.
- It's actually a two piece and it'll get you a couple percent more range on the truck.
- You're gaining a couple percent in FPS maybe depends on the game.
- Almost a percent of all women in pregnancy would die.
- So you want to try and get in that top few percent, that isn't shit, right?
Examples
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Unemployment surged to nearly 12 percent as the economy shrank by about 3 percent.
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The national defense budget accounts for 56 percent of all U.S. federal discretionary spending.
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Typically it's a few percent a year, right?
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You know one thing I know... one hundred percent for sure.
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This graph shows the percent change year over year.
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The student had received a score of less than 60 percent in three different subjects.
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Nuclear energy currently produces a little more than 20 percent of the nation's electricity.
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The nation's GDP has averaged 3.3 percent annual growth for the past half century.
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We celebrate the music educators who boast 10 percent school enrollment in their music ensembles.
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Currently, some employees contribute up to 13 percent of their pay to the pension plans.
Synonyms
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2.1
A part of a whole shown as a number out of 100
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3.3
A number showing how many parts out of one hundred
A number that shows how much out of every hundred
Idioms
- Informal
To work as hard as you can, often more than expected
Compounds
- Informal
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2.7
The act of putting all your energy and attention into doing something
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word percent comes from the parts per- 'for each' and cent 'hundred'. So, it means one part in every hundred, which is why we use percent to talk about rates like ten percent.