percentage
Rate per hundred
A percentage is a proportion expressed as parts per hundred, indicated by the symbol %: What percentage of voters support the measure?
The word often appears where portion or share would suffice: A large percentage of the budget goes to salaries.
In the plural, percentages can mean commission or profit margin: The salespeople work on percentages.
Part divided by whole
- decimalTenths-based notation
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- numeratorNumber being divided
denominator · division · arithmetic · ratio · quotient · formula · equation · computation
Portion given out
piece · fraction · cut · allotment · allocation · amount · quantity · proportion
Attention, stake, or fee
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- returnGo back again
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- dividendCorporate profit share
APR · commission · margin · markup · discount · fee · premium · equity
Quantified chance of occurrence
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
mean · median · sample · survey · poll · margin of error · confidence · significance
fraction
Part divided by whole
- decimalTenths-based notation
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- proportionComparative relation of parts
numerator · denominator · division · arithmetic · ratio · quotient · formula · equation · computation · hundredth
share
Portion given out
segment · piece · fraction · cut · allotment · allocation · amount · quantity · proportion · component
interest
Attention, stake, or fee
dividend · APR · commission · margin · markup · discount · fee · premium · equity · capital
probability
Quantified chance of occurrence
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- distributionAllocation across recipients
average · mean · median · sample · survey · poll · margin of error · confidence · significance · variance
increase
Growth in amount
spike · surge · uptick · hike · boost · climb · escalation · expansion · upswing · inflation
decrease
Become or make smaller
fall · dip · decline · downturn · shrinkage · depreciation · markdown · cutback · slump · contraction
- numbersone, two, four, three, 0
- calculationsaddition, subtraction, multiplication, division, sum
- charts & graphsbar chart, pie chart, line graph, scatter plot, histogram
- infographicsbar graph, pie chart, line graph, flowchart, heat map
- numbers & valueszero, one, infinity, pi, integer
- proportionsratio, proportion, fraction, share, portion
percentagewhole number
Quantity lacking fractional parts
fixed amount · absolute value · count · tally · integer
- winning percentageRatio of victories to contests
- percentage pointAbsolute rate difference unit
- battery percentageRemaining power shown numerically
- annual percentage rateYearly cost of borrowing
- percentage offProportional price cut
- fat percentage