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Definition of Ten percent
1. Noun. A tenth part; one part in ten equal parts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ten Percent
Literary usage of Ten percent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"Payable at any place without the t'nited States, ten percent; at any point within
the United State?, and out of Illinois, five per cent. ..."
2. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"Although the twenty percent jelly will take up enough water so that its composition
is equal to that of a ten percent jelly, ..."
3. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"Although the twenty percent jelly will take up enough water so that its composition
is equal to that of a ten percent jelly, the two do not then behave ..."
4. The Political Code of the State of California: As Enacted in 1872, and by California, Nathan Newmark, California Supreme Court (1881)
"Any contract entered into without giving further notice and receiving bids must
bo at least ten percent, lower than the lowest rejected bid. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1914)
"1 increasing percents of the ordinary Seger pink up .to ten percent. ... 1, five
percent and ten percent of several different underglaze color-bodies. ..."
6. The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress of the United States by Joseph Story, United States, George Sharswood (1840)
"... in hampers or baskets, ten per cení ; in boxes, twenty per cent ; on candles,
in boxes, eight per cent; on chocolate, in boxes, ten percent; on cotton, ..."
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