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单词 percent
释义 per·cent
I. \pə(r)ˈsent\ adverb
Etymology: from per century, abbreviation for per centum, from Latin
: in the hundred : of each hundred
 < a rate of … 1 shilling 3 pence percent — W.D.Winter >
 < cannot recover if he is even one percent responsible for the accident — S.H.Hofstadter >
 < agreed with her suggestions a hundred percent — Sally Benson >
II. noun
(plural percent or percents)
1.
 a. : one part in a hundred : hundredth
  < while they are laboring with tenths of a percent, the rest of us are letting tens of percents slip through our fingers — S.L.Payne >
  < come upon stars which can not have spent more than a few percent of their hydrogen — G.W.Gray b.1886 >
  < provided forty percent of Europe's requirements — Harold Butler >
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 b. : percentage
  < a large percent of the hotel's income … stems from convention visitors — G.T.Hellman >
  < manufacturing and mercantile rates are both percents of the fire insurance rate — Robert Riegel & J.S.Miller >
2. percents plural, Britain : securities bearing a specified rate of interest
 < invested in three percents >
III. adjective
1. : reckoned on the basis of a whole divided into one hundred parts
 < a five percent increase >
 < harvested 50 percent more wheat because of timely rains >
 < another 100 percent result — Manchester Guardian Weekly >
2. : paying interest at a specified percent
 < a 3 1/2 percent government bond >
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