percent

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).

Usage notes

 * A percentage is often denoted by the character %.
 *  50% denotes 50 percent.
 * The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point, not by percent.
 * In the UK, per cent is the normal form.

Noun

 * 1) A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
 * 2) One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
 * 3) The percent sign, %.
 * 4) An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
 * 1) The percent sign, %.
 * 2) An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: përqind
 * Arabic: فِي الْمِئَة, بِالْمِئَة
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܵܘ ܐܸܡܵܐ, ܒܐܸܡܵܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: por cientu
 * Azerbaijani:, yüzdə
 * Bashkir: процент
 * Basque: ehuneko
 * Belarusian: працэ́нт, адсо́так
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: dre gant
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: per cent
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 百分之, 巴仙
 * Hakka: 趴先多
 * Hokkien: 百分之
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: сядопелькс
 * Esperanto: procento, pocento, elcento, centono
 * Estonian: protsent
 * Faroese: prosent
 * Fijian: pasede
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: პროცენტი
 * German: vom Hundert,, Perzent
 * Greek: τοις εκατό
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: प्रतिशत, फ़ीसद
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, prósenta, hundraðstala
 * Ido: po cent,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:, процент
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ji sedî
 * Kyrgyz: процент, пайыз
 * Lao: ເປີເຊັນ
 * Latin: per centum, pro centum
 * Latvian: procents
 * Lithuanian: nuošimtis, procentas
 * Macedonian: насто, процент
 * Malay: peratus
 * Maltese: fil-mija
 * Maori: ōrau
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: процент,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, فی صد
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: por cento
 * Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰਤਿਸ਼ਤ
 * Romanian:, la sută
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: pasene
 * Scottish Gaelic: às a' cheud
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̏сто̄, о̏дсто̄, по̀стотак, проценат
 * Roman:, ȍdstō, ,
 * Slovak: percento
 * Slovene: odstotek
 * Spanish: por ciento
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: дарсад,, дар сад
 * Tamil: ,
 * Telugu: శాతం
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: protsent, prosent
 * Ukrainian: відсо́ток,
 * Urdu: فیصد
 * Uyghur: پىرسەنت
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: y cant
 * Yiddish: פּראָצענט

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) Per hundred.

Usage notes

 * Percent/per cent originated as a shortening of the Latin phrase per centum, “per hundred”, and historically the use of the word as a noun (as in “half a percent” or “percents”) was regarded as an error, though such use has now become so common that it is recognized by all other major dictionaries,      and a few treat the word as being only a noun. Of those which recognize non-nounal uses, most label it an adverb     and many also label it an adjective    though it does not meet tests of adjectivity.

Etymology
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