Word Finder - percentage

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The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

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A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

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A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

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She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

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Benefit or advantage.

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There was no percentage in staying at home.

Amazon even tells you what percentage of people buys each one.

It has been thought that it refers to the fact that ants form a large percentage of the prey of the insect, the suffix "lion" merely suggesting destroyer or eater.

Food in the United States is so inexpensive as a percentage of national income that it literally is a throwaway item.

Pop. of the municipality (1900), 2 9,33 1, a large percentage being summer residents, as the census was taken late in December; (1902, municipal census), 18, 373.

I I the edge of the disk serves as the pointer and the scale gives the percentage of slack, or (N - n)/n.

In societies where a large percentage of income is necessary just to buy food, having volatile food prices will mean hunger sooner or later, no matter how good the factory jobs are.

The parks are a fine feature of the city; by its charter a fixed percentage of all expenditures for public improvements must be used to purchase park land.

The manganese ores of the Bathurst district of New South Wales often contain a small percentage of cobalt - sufficient, indeed, to warrant further attempts to work them.

He was getting paid a percentage just to pick up the artwork and deliver it to my broker.

But the point need not be discussed further here, since both percentage and absolute indices of unsteadiness have risen of late years.

Instead of the borrowing power being restricted to a small percentage of the total capital, as in European countries, most of the railway mileage of America has been built with borrowed money, represented by bonds, while stock has been given freely as an inducement to subscribe to the bonds on the XXII.

The land included in farms amounted in 1900 to 22,745,356 acres or 73% of the total land surface of the state, and the percentage of farm land that was improved increased from 26.5 in 1870 to 36.6 in 1900.

Paraffin wax is tested for melting-point (or setting-point), and the semi-refined product is further examined to ascertain the percentage of oil, water and dirt present.

The percentage of sunshine in the state is high.

In other words, the average person will make more money, pay a higher percentage as taxes, but still bring home vastly more than before.

It is a species of cannel coal, somewhat similar to the Boghead mineral of Scotland, but yielding a much larger percentage of volatile hydro-carbon than the Scottish mineral.

Textile, building and mining industries show the highest percentage of strikes, since they give employment to large numbers of men concentrated in single localities.

The urban population on the basis of places having a population of 4000 or more was 16.6% of the total in 1900 and 22.7% in 1905, the percentage for Florida, as for other Southern States; being small as compared with the percentage for most of the other states of the Union.

The average of settlement per square mile varied from 169.7 in Havana province to 11.8 in Camaguey, and was 46.4 for all of Cuba; the percentage of urban population (in cities, that is, with more than 1000 inhabitants) in the different provinces.

The landlord received from his tenant (kmet) a fixed percentage, usually one third (tretina), of the annual produce; and, of the remaining two thirds, the cash equivalent of one tenth (desetina) went to the state.

Hence, among all the English poets, it is Tennyson who presents the least percentage of entirely unattractive poetry.

Thus, during the period of ten years between 1893 and 1902, it was found that the percentage of recruits of 5 ft.

For example, the compound Cu3Sn is not indicated in the freezing-point curve, and indeed a liquid alloy of this percentage does not begin to solidify by the formation of crystals of Cu 3 Sn; the liquid solidifies completely to a uniform solid solution, and only at a lower temperature does this change into crystals of the compound, the transformation being accompanied by a considerable evolution of heat.

Pop. (1900), 161,697, including a large percentage of Indians and mixed bloods.

The percentage of illegitimacy is about 7.

The percentage of failure is greatest when fresh-caught adults are hurried to Europe or America.

For the exact determination of the last element the census affords no precise data, but affords material for various approximations, based either upon the elimination of the probable progeny of immigrants since 1790; on the known increase of the whites of the South, where the foreign element has always been relatively insignificant; on the percentage of natives having native grandfathers in Massachusetts in 1905; or upon the assumed continuance through the 19th century of the rate of native growth (one-third decennially) known to have prevailed down at least to 1820.

The Appalachian field (Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, West Virginia and Tennessee) produces oil rich in paraffin, practically free from sulphur and asphalt, and yielding the largest percentage of gasoline and illuminating oils.

There is also a large percentage of endemic species.

For each biotope, the figures show the percentage of core biotope records falling into a given category for a given factor.

Second is the Relative Income Standard which is a fixed percentage relative to the average.

Percentage of success rates have to be highly subjective.

The percentage of illegitimate births (2.6) is the lowest in Germany.

The surcharge is calculated as a percentage of the VAT that is unpaid at the due date.

Limits are issued on an individual basis, and the annual percentage rate can rise and fall with the discretion of the card issuer.

And if everyone who hit their spouse landed in jail, we might be rather shocked at the percentage.

If L and N are the inductances of any two circuits which have a coefficient of mutual inductance M, then M/-/ (LN) is called the coefficient of coupling of the circuits and is generally expressed as a percentage.

The Protestant contingent consists of a number of small congregations scattered throughout the country, a few Portuguese Protestants from the Azores, a part of the German colonists settled in the central and southern states, and a large percentage of the North Europeans and Americans temporarily resident in Brazil.

In no country, perhaps, has the press exercised a more direct and powerful influence upon government than in Brazil, and in no other country can there be found so high a percentage of journalists in official life.

The percentage of educated men who have written little volumes of lyrics is surprisingly large, and this may be accounted for by the old Portuguese custom of reciting poetry with musical accompaniment.

Serum and bile inoculation were the means of saving a considerable percentage of the herds.

This is also shown by the data relating to the percentage of members of other Hungarian races speaking this language.

This represents a percentage of 16.8, while in 1890 the percentage was only 13.8.

The white population is broadly divisible into the British and Dutch elements, the percentage of other whites in 1904 being but 8.6.

Generally speaking, the lower the nitrogen content of a guncotton, as found by the nitrometer, the higher the percentage of matters soluble in a mixture of ether-alcohol.

The population consists of a small percentage of whites of European descent, chiefly Spaniards, various tribes and settlements of Indians, largely of the Arawak and Carib families, and a large percentage of mestizos, or mixed bloods.

In a given case of anasarca due to a cause acting generally, it will be found that the liquid of the pleural cavity always contains the highest percentage of proteid, that of the peritoneal cavity comes next, that of the cerebral ventricles follows this, and the liquid of the subcutaneous areolar tissue contains the lowest.

The foreign-born popu lation shows a large increase in percentage to the whole, being 1.57 in 1881 and 2.98 in 1901.

A return of the percentage of inhabitants dwelling in over-crowded tenements shows 2.7 for Lewisham, 4.5 for Wandsworth, 5.5 for Stoke Newington, and 6.4 for Hampstead, against 35.2 for Finsbury and 29.9 for Shoreditch.

In mining operations explosives are used on a large scale and the powder gases contain large quantities of the very poisonous gas, carbon monoxide, a small percentage of which may cause death, and even a minute percentage of which in the air will seriously affect the health.