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Definition of Percentage sign
1. Noun. A sign ('%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percentage Sign
Literary usage of Percentage sign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rapid Arithmetic: Quick and Special Methods in Arithmetical Calculation by Thomas O'Conor Sloane (1922)
"If the above operations are followed out with regard to the decimal point, it
will be seen that the percentage sign, %, or the word per cent, applied to an ..."
2. Nuclear Production of Hydrogen: First Information Exchange Meeting, Paris by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2001)
"The numbers written in parentheses in Figure 1 denote the percentage of total
primary energy supply, and the numbers followed by a percentage sign denote ..."
3. Rapid Arithmetic by Thomas O'Conor Sloane (1922)
"If the above operations are followed out with regard to the decimal point, it
will be seen that the percentage sign,'%, or the word per cent, applied to an ..."
4. Federal Courts and Practice: All Sherman Law Trust Prosecutions and Syllabus by John A. Shields (1912)
"... and that percentage sign a petition asking his recall, an election shall take
place in which the incumbent shall stand against other candidates; ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"Purities are commonly expressed with the degree mark instead of the percentage
sign, or both signs are omitted. 24. The coefficient of purity of cane juice ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"People v. Owyhee Lumber Co., 1 Idaho, 420, 422. percentage sign. "%," as used in
a note reciting "Int. ..."
7. Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America by Herbert Joseph Spinden (1922)
"As added symbols black spots and dotted lines are sometimes drawn upon his body
and a curious device like a percentage sign upon his cheek. ..."
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