PERCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does percent mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERCENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

pct; per centum; percent; percentage

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

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "percent"):

absentee rate (the percentage of workers who do not report to work)

occupancy rate (the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time)

vacancy rate (the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time)

unemployment rate (the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date)

 Context examples 

Approximately 30 percent of people with food allergy are allergic to multiple foods.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

The World Health Organization reports more than 90 percent, or nearly 2 billion children under the age of 15, breathe toxic air every day.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) DAD total in percent.

(DAD - Total Percent, NCI Thesaurus)

The 5-year survival rate following resection is between 80 percent and 95 percent, and remains high even when lymph node metastases are present.

(Early Gastric Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

Their classification and grading are based on the various cell types and the percent of undifferentiated cells.

(Endometrial Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

99 percent of the water moving through a tree is used to keep stomata open.

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

It is characterized by the presence of extracellular mucin that constitutes more than fifty-percent of the tumor.

(Extrahepatic Bile Duct Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Between 50 percent and 80 percent of adults in the United States have had a CMV infection by age 40.

(Cytomegalovirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Metastases occur in approximately twenty percent of the cases.

(Adult Type Testicular Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the complement required to lyse 50 percent of red blood cells in a biological specimen.

(CH50 Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)