percent
Out of hundred
Percent means per hundred—a way of expressing a proportion as a fraction of one hundred.
Fifty percent of the class passed.
The word functions as noun, adjective, and adverb: a ten percent raise, sales increased five percent.
In casual speech, percent often emphasizes certainty or completeness: I'm a hundred percent sure.
Also spelled per cent, especially in British English.
Part divided by whole
- sharePortion given out
- portionDivided share given
- partPiece of whole
- ratioComparative numerical relation
amount · quantity · slice · segment · allocation · quota · allotment · cut
Quantified chance of occurrence
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- quartileData division into fourths
- decileTen-part statistical division
- frequencyRate of recurrence
distribution · sample · correlation · significance · variance · mean · median · outlier
Go back again
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- markupAdded percentage for profit
- marginEdge of a page
- appreciationRecognition of worth
depreciation · commission · fee · discount · APR
fraction
Part divided by whole
ratio · amount · quantity · slice · segment · allocation · quota · allotment · cut · stake
probability
Quantified chance of occurrence
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- quartileData division into fourths
- decileTen-part statistical division
frequency · distribution · sample · correlation · significance · variance · mean · median · outlier · skew
return
Go back again
appreciation · depreciation · commission · fee · discount · APR
scale
Measure of relative size
level · rank · benchmark · threshold · target · goal · baseline · ceiling · floor · cap
increase
Growth in amount
rise · drop · gain · loss · improvement · reduction · spike · surge · dip · fluctuation
- arithmeticaddition, subtraction, multiplication, division, sum
- mathematicsalgebra, arithmetic, calculus, geometry, number
- numbersone, two, four, three, 0
- math termsnumbers, plus or minus, linear growth, square, operand
- calculator buttonsplus, minus, equals, multiply, divide
- proportionsratio, proportion, fraction, share, portion
percentwhole number
Quantity lacking fractional parts
count · absolute value · integer · total · fixed amount
percentparts per million
Ratio expressing tiny concentrations
ppm · basis point · fraction · decimal · ratio
- 100 percentComplete fullness, no remainder
- one hundred percentThe whole amount
- percent offProportional price reduction
- a hundred percentTotal completeness or certainty
- fifty percentHalf of something
- ten percentOne in ten