Definitions for percent

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percent per·cent

Spelling: [per-sent]

IPA: /pərˈsɛnt/

Percent is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in percent (ceenprt).

Definitions for percent

noun

1. Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
2. percentage (defs 1, 3).
3. British. stocks, bonds, etc., that bear an indicated rate of interest.

adjective

1. figured or expressed on the basis of a rate or proportion per hundred (used in combination with a number in expressing rates of interest, proportions, etc.): Symbol: %.

Origin of percent

1560-70; short for Medieval Latin per centum by the hundred. See per, cent

Examples for percent

Most experts agree that about 90 percent of the population can be hypnotized.

Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.

The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival.

At least 14 percent of your income now should be set aside for these purposes.

This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.

Thirty-six percent were in favor and 38 percent were opposed.

My own feeling is that probably 99 percent can be hypnotized.

Windage in the English gun of 1750 was about 20 percent greater than in French pieces.

You've told me yourself that Mars has only 73 percent of the earth's density.