percent
adverb (also per cent) /pəˈsent/
/pɚ-/ Definition
B1 for or out of every 100, shown by the symbol %: You got 20 percent of the answers right - that means one in every five. Only 40 percent of people bothered to vote in the election.Numerical relationships
(Definition of percent adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- arithmetical/arithmetic progression noun
- differential adjective
- differential noun (GAP)
- disproportionate adjective
- function noun (VALUE)
- geometric(al) progression noun
- independent variable noun
- index noun (COMPARISON)
- iteration noun
- pc
- percentage noun (AMOUNT)
- percentile noun
- pro rata adjective, adverb
- proportion noun (AMOUNT)
- proportion noun (SIZE)
- proportional adjective
- ratio noun
- set noun (GROUP)
- subset noun
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