Per
[pɜː] or [pɚ]
Definition
(prep.) Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.
Edited by Barton
Definition
prep. through by means of according to.—Per annum year by year: for each year; Per capita by heads implying equal rights to two or more persons; Per cent. per hundred; Per contra on the contrary: as a set-off; Per diem every day: day by day; Per mensem monthly: by the month; Per saltum at a single leap: all at once; Per se by himself &c.: essentially.
Typist: Patricia
Examples
- The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Where the market rate of interest is five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Suppose a note of 800 vibrations per second is sung. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Twenty per cent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So when the men came to ask for the five per cent. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I worked on this cable more than two weeks, and the best I could do was two words per minute, which was only one-seventh of what the guaranteed speed of the cable should be when laid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It secured further 40 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The largest per capita increase since 1870 has been in malt liquors, and the next in coffee. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Obviously, at each step the percentage of felspar and phosphorus is less and less until in the final concentrates the percentage of iron oxide is 91 to 93 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sparkling Must requires an addition of 6 to 7 ounces of salicylic acid per 100 gallons. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- About 1/4 to 3/4 of an ounce per 50 gallons will be found sufficient for most wines. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Typed by Hector