percents
USpur-SENTS/pɚˈsɛnts/UKpuh-SENTS/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛnts/
- 1Plural of percent.
The sixth-grade unit covers ratios, decimals, and percents.
Students practiced converting fractions to percents and back again.
Note
A plural that only some uses of percent can take. In five percent the word works as an adverb meaning "for every hundred," so it never adds an -s after a numeral. The countable nouns do take it: separate percentage figures set side by side, or the securities that pay a fixed annual rate. Write fifty percent, but the percents two surveys reported.
percents is a form of percent
percent, noun: One part in every hundred; also an amount or rate expressed as so many parts in a hundred, a percentage. Full entry
- Forms
- percent also pluralpercents plural
- Spelling
- percent → percents: add -s
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