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How to pronounce percentage in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pct, per centum, percent
Type of proportion
Has types absentee rate, occupancy rate, unemployment rate, vacancy rate
Type Words
Synonyms part, portion, share
Type of assets
Has types dispensation, dole, interest, cut, ration, slice, split, stake, tranche, allotment, allowance, way, piece, profit sharing, allocation

Examples of percentage

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Reimer, a 2006 draft pick, is 1-1 with a .957 save percentage in his two starts.
From the stltoday.com
Sink and Smith lost the governor's race to Rick Scott, by two percentage points.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Are you paying a higher or lower percentage of your income for health insurance?
From the newsday.com
Only a small percentage of Offers in Compromise filed with the IRS are accepted.
From the usatoday.com
Ratings represent the percentage of homes with televisions tuned into a program.
From the timesunion.com
Edmonds carries a career .284 average and .903 on-base-plus-slugging percentage.
From the stltoday.com
Trading margin is the ratio of trading profit to revenue stated as a percentage.
From the hemscott.com
That can add as much as 0.4 percentage points to the expense ratio, experts say.
From the businessweek.com
By 2001, 2,028 women picked up the same degrees, doubling the percentage to 44%.
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More examples
  • A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
  • Share: assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash"
  • In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred" in Latin). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%", or the abbreviation "pct". For example, 45% (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to 45/100, or 0.45.
  • The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole; A share of the profits; Benefit or advantage
  • (Percentages) The user enters any two of the values---whole, part, and percent---and clicks on Compute. Although the computer does the work, the applet nicely models percent problems.
  • A way of measuring. The number 100 (which stands for the whole amount) is usually divided into 100 smaller, but equal, parts, each called a percent. So a percentage usually refers to a certain number of parts within the whole. Therefore, 6% is 6 units out of 100% (the whole). ...
  • The amount of coverage in a halftone dot is called Percentage or Tint. A 10% dot is much smaller than an 80% dot. When screen printed, a dot grows in size. This is called dot gain and it can be as much as 30% when printing on an automatic press and 40% when using a manual. ...
  • The number of units with a certain characteristic divided by the total number of units in the sample and multiplied by 100. For example, the percentage that represents five out of 20 boys is 5 divided by 20 x 100, which is 25%.
  • Calculated based on the records displayed (not total records) for a particular report. When a report's count value changes, we recalculate percentages.