percentage

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A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.

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The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.

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A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part.

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An amount, such as an allowance, duty, or commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales.

noun

Advantage; gain.

noun

Rate or proportion per hundred: as, the percentage of loss; the percentage of oxygen in some compound, or of pure metal in an ore; specifically, in com., an allowance, duty, commission, or rate of interest on a hundred; loosely, proportion in general.

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

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

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A share of the profits.