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PERCENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
Synonyms:
pct; per centum; percent; percentage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("percent" is a kind of...):
proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "percent"):
absentee rate (the percentage of workers who do not report to work)
occupancy rate (the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time)
vacancy rate (the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time)
unemployment rate (the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date)
Context examples:
It affects 3-5 percent of all American children.
(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Most bacteria won't hurt you - less than 1 percent of the different types make people sick.
(Bacterial Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
The signet-ring cells constitute more than fifty-percent of the malignant cells.
(Appendix Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
SLC44A4, potentially a sodium-dependent transmembrane transport protein, is overexpressed on more than 80 percent of samples derived from patients with pancreatic, prostate and gastric cancers.
(Anti-AGS-5 Antibody-Drug Conjugate ASG-5ME, NCI Thesaurus)
A chronic myelomonocytic leukemia characterized by the presence of less than 10 percent blasts in the bone marrow and less than 5 percent blasts in the peripheral blood.
(Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia-1, NCI Thesaurus)
At least 30 percent of either component should be present for the diagnosis to be made.
(Ampulla of Vater Mixed Adenoneuroendocrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
About 12 percent of the U.S. population gets them.
(Migraine, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Polycythemia has been reported in twelve-percent of patients.
(Metanephric Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of granulosa cells that comprise at least ten percent of the cellular population.
(Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
A numerical chromosomal abnormality characterized by the presence of copy number variations in less than five percent of chromosomal arms.
(Minimal Aneuploidy, NCI Thesaurus)
