English Online Dictionary. What means percentage? What does percentage mean?
English
Alternative forms
- per-centage (archaic)
Etymology
From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
- (Philippine, nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/
- Hyphenation: per‧cent‧age
Noun
percentage (countable and uncountable, plural percentages)
- The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
- Synonym: centage
- A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
- (informal) Benefit or advantage.
Usage notes
- A percentage is often denoted by the character ⟨%⟩.
- e.g. 50% denotes 50 per cent.
- For sports statistics, percentages are mostly expressed in American and Canadian English as proportions of up to three decimal places and are read as if they were whole numbers.
- e.g. (0).500 denotes five hundred, not 50% or 50 per cent.
Derived terms
Related terms
- percent
- percentile
- permillage
- permyriad
Translations
References
Dutch
Alternative forms
- procentage (archaic)
Etymology
From percent + -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpɛr.sɛnˈtaː.ʒə/
- Hyphenation: per‧cen‧ta‧ge
- Rhymes: -aːʒə
Noun
percentage n (plural percentages)
- percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)
Descendants
- → Indonesian: persentase