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单词 percent
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percentv.

Brit. /pəˈsɛnt/, U.S. /pərˈsɛnt/
Forms: see per cent adv. and n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: per cent adv.
Etymology: < per cent adv.
Chiefly U.S.
transitive. To rate, calculate, or evaluate by means of a percentage. Usually in passive.
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1863 Continental Monthly Oct. 412/1 The material and palpable part of nature which may be calculated, percented, turned into gold, or made to minister to sensual pleasures.
1883 Student (U.S.) 3 286 When students are found obtaining help of others they are not percented at all.
1980 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 86 681 A few tables in chapter 7 are percented in the wrong direction for the causal argument being made.
1996 C. J. N. Bailey Ess. on Time-Based Ling. Anal. i. 48 Despite arguments about whether a given example should be asterisked, questioned, per-cented, or fully accepted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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