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an amount of something, often expressed as a number out of 100: a high/large/small percentage A high percentage of their customers order their goods online. as a percentage of sth Gross margin as a percentage of net sales for the year was 45%. The fees are usually expressed as a percentage of the selling price.
Percentage. A pie chart showing the percentage by web browser visiting Wikimedia sites (April 2009 to 2012) In mathematics, a percentage (from Latin per centum 'by a hundred') is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100.
1. a. : a part of a whole expressed in hundredths. a high percentage of students attended. b. : the result obtained by multiplying a number by a percent. the percentage equals the rate times the base. 2. a. : a share of winnings or profits. b. : advantage, profit. no percentage in going around looking like an old sack of laundry Wallace Stegner. 3.
Introduction to Percents. Illustrated definition of Percent: Parts per 100 The symbol is Example: 25 means 25 per 100 (25 of this box is green) So it tells...
used for showing how sure you are about something, or how likely or true something is, or how much you agree with someone : I'm 99.9 percent sure I'm right. There's a 20% chance of rain today. Patients who develop symptoms have only a 10 per cent chance of surviving. I agree with you 101 percent. one hundred percent.
Percentage is a rate or proportion per hundred, as in This graph shows the percentage of homes that have a microwave. Percentage is also used more generally to mean any proportion, as in Studies have shown that a large percentage of people love cute animals.
My Dictionary says "Percentage" is the "result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent". So 10 percent of 50 apples is 5 apples: the 5 apples is the percentage. But in practice people use both words the same way.
