noun
- a rate, number, or amount in each hundred
adverb
- out of every hundred
Examples
- Twenty percent of the students failed the exam.
- The tax rate is 8.5 percent.
- Sales increased by 15 percent this quarter.
- Only 3 percent of applicants were accepted.
- The battery is charged to 90 percent.
- Interest rates dropped to 2.1 percent.