Percentage
[pə'sentɪdʒ] or [pɚ'sɛntɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred).
Editor: Milton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
Edited by Horace
Definition
n. rate per hundred: an allowance of so much for every hundred.—adj. Percen′tile.
Typist: Zamenhof
Examples
- 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.
- But all mines must be ventilated by forcing air through them with a fan, and this air must be in sufficient quantity to keep the percentage of gas below a dangerous standard. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am inclined to think that the percentage of crooked people was smaller when I was young. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The percentage of drop varies according to the quantity of copper used in conductors, both as to cross-section and length. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This labor would support but a very limited percentage of them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I don't want to pay too large a price for my friend, but I want you to have your proper percentage and be remunerated for your loss of time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The main point to be remembered is that the crops to be put away in the silo must contain a certain percentage of sugar and starch in every combination. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He'd sell his own mother at a good percentage--not wishing the old woman any harm, either. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The smaller the cross-sectional area, the greater the percentage of drop. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The charging of briquettes was begun with a percentage of 25 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ruby, chemically considered, is crystallized alumina, or oxide of aluminum, with a small percentage of oxide of chromium. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For every mile less, to the minimum limit of thirty-six miles an hour, the government was to deduct the same percentage. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We say that such a percentage of the population cannot read or write. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What is the percentage? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In these were found large quantities of iron, considerable percentages of nickel, as well as cobalt, copper, silicon, phosphorus, c arbon, magnesium, zinc, and manganese. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Edited by Bradley