percent
Per hundredPer hundred.
Recorded US: Dvortygirl, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
UK/pəˈsɛnt/US/pɚˈsɛnt/
Meaning
1 sensesPer hundred.
Origin
From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).
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