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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin; see percent.]

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