per·cent [or] per cent
 percent [or] per cent
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| definition: |
one part or unit of each hundred.
Ten percent of one hundred is ten.Only eighty percent of the tickets were sold. |
The word percent
contains the following part:
cent, centi
Latin
root
that means
hundred, hundreth
Example words: