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Definition of Percentage

1. Noun. A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred).

2. Noun. Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group. "He wanted his share in cash"

Definition of Percentage

1. n. A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

Definition of Percentage

1. Noun. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. ¹

2. Noun. A share of the profits. ¹

3. Noun. (informal) Benefit or advantage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Percentage

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Percentage

perceivably perceivance perceive perceived perceived temperature perceivedness perceiver perceivers perceives perceiveth

perceiving percely percen percent percent sign percentage (current term) percentage point percentage rate percentage sign percentages

percental percenter percenters percentile percentile dice percentiles percents percentual percept percept analysis

Literary usage of Percentage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by North Dakota State Budget Board (1912)
"ASSESSMENT AT PULL VALUE OR percentage OF FULL VALUE. It is a matter of universal knowledge in this state that the law provides for the assessment of all ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"which is rich in sugar, having decreased the sugar percentage from 6.10. If so desired this percentage may be increased by the addition of a quantity of ..."

3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"Butter-fat percentage has been shown to have a considerable variation with age in the Ayrshire breed, some relation to age in the Jersey and Guernsey breeds ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1904)
"a 20 per cent. cream is used, take as many ounces and fractions of ounces as there are units and fractions of units in the prescribed percentage; 13.33 per ..."

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