Significado de percent em inglês

percent

adverb

(also per cent)

/pəˈsent/ us

/pɚˈsent/

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for or out of every 100, shown by the symbol %:

You got 20 percent of the answers right - that means one in every five.

Only 40 per cent of people bothered to vote in the election.

used for showing how sure you are about something, or how likely or true something is, or how much you agree with someone :

I'm 99.9 percent sure I'm right.

There's a 20% chance of rain today.

Patients who develop symptoms have only a 10 per cent chance of surviving.

I agree with you 101 percent.

one hundred percent

informal

(also a hundred percent, hundred percent)

completely; used for emphasizing what you are saying:

I agree with you one hundred percent.

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Sales are up by 36 per cent. How about that?
They offer a 10% discount on rail travel for students.
Across the country, exam results have improved by an average of eight percent.
I've managed to negotiate a five percent pay increase with my boss.

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Idiomas

give a hundred percent

not a hundred percent

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percent | Dicionário Americano

percent

adverb [ not gradable ]

(also per cent)

/pərˈsent/

(abbreviation pct); (symbol %)

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for or out of every 100:

You got 20 percent of the answers right.

Only 48% of registered voters actually voted in the election.

(Definição de percent do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

percent | inglês para Negócios

percent

noun [ S ]

MEASURES

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one part of every 100, or the specified amount of something divided by 100:

Business customers account for about 70 percent of the computing company's revenue.

by 3/50/100, etc. percent The bank needed to reduce its workforce by 20 percent.

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as a percent of sth Operating income as a percent of sales increased slightly from the previous year.

percent

adverb

(UK also per cent)

/pəˈsent/ us

for or out of every 100, often shown by the symbol %:

Shares fell 6 percent after the group warned profits would be lower than expected.

percent

adjective

Unions urged workers to reject the 1.5 percent pay offer.

(Definição de percent do Dicionário Cambridge de inglês para Negócios © Cambridge University Press)

Exemplos de percent

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Wide ranges (+30 percent of the point estimates) were used to account for the uncertainty surrounding these cost estimates.

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In seven percent of the cases, the sinus nodal artery took origin from a separate orifice within the same sinus as a major coronary artery.

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Ten percent of all utterances were re-coded by the first author and a point-by-point comparison was made with a second coder.

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Ninety-five percent of the patients for whom revascularization was preferred received the treatment.

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No significant group differences were found in body mass index and percent body fat.

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Once the utilization became greater than 82.3 percent, the automated system became dominant, that is, both less costly and more effective.

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An interesting question is whether an inflation threshold, for example, of 10 percent is significantly different from a threshold of 8 percent or 15 percent.

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Percentage indicates the percent of all overlaps calculated.

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Two acoustic measures of consonant overlap are considered: percent released and duration ratio.

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Diagnostic applications were most frequently reported (28 percent), followed by therapeutic prediction (22 percent), preventive prediction (18 percent), pharmacogenetics (16 percent), and screening (16 percent).

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Thirteen percent of caregivers met criteria for a psychiatric disorder; 25% accessed treatment for mental health concerns since the patient's cancer diagnosis.

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Eleven percent were lost to follow-up and the study lacked a control group.

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Eleven percent had taken a tranquillizer, antidepressant or sleeping tablet, and all these compounds had been prescribed by a doctor.

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Of the 273 executive appointments, 182 (or 66.7 percent) went to lame-duck members of the president's party.

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Data are expressed as numbers (percent) unless indicated otherwise.

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