ONE PERCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one percent mean? 

• ONE PERCENT (noun)
  The noun ONE PERCENT has 1 sense:

1. one part in a hundred equal parts

  Familiarity information: ONE PERCENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE PERCENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One part in a hundred equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

hundredth; one-hundredth; one percent

Hypernyms ("one percent" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

 Context examples 

On Mars, the pressure of the atmosphere is less than one percent of the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

The risk of HIV acquisition rose by 18 percent for each one percent increase in alpha-4 beta-7 protein.

(Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression, National Institutes of Health)

“To put this in perspective, as a result of this increase, the risk of heart attack due to NSAIDs is on average about one percent annually,” researchers wrote.

(Common Painkillers Linked to Increased Risk for Heart Attack, VOA)

Despite covering less than one percent of Earth's surface area, ancient lakes contain almost half the world's fresh surface water and a large share of its freshwater biodiversity.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

In fact, grass growing in mussel clusters had a 64 percent probability of surviving, compared to a one percent probability in areas without mussels.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)

That suggests the close-up region, which covers less than one percent of Pluto’s surface, may still be geologically active today.

(The Icy Mountains of Pluto, NASA)

The Jovian weather layer, from its very top to a depth of 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers), contains about one percent of Jupiter’s mass (about 3 Earth masses).

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

An Earth-size planet passing in front of a small ultra-cool dwarf star like TRAPPIST-1 creates less than a one percent dip in brightness, and is not visible with the naked eye.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

This multi-stage process may explain why 25 percent of adults over the age of 65 have CAVD with partially blocked aortic valves, but only one percent goes on to develop stenosis due to a valve that can no longer open and close properly.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They are formed into small globular masses of various sizes, and are medicated by placing them in a vial and adding the liquid drug attenuation in the proportion not less than one percent (v/w).

(Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)