Usually means: Fraction of a hundred parts.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. percent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. percent: Merriam-Webster
  3. percent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. percent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Percent, percent, percent: Wordnik
  6. percent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. percent: Wiktionary
  8. percent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. percent (per cent): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. percent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. percent: Dictionary.com
  12. percent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. percent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Percent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. percent: Rhymezone
  16. percent: FreeDictionary.org
  17. percent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. percent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. percent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. percent: Vocabulary.com

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. percent: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. percent: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. percent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. percent: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Percent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. percent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. percent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See percents as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
noun:  A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
noun:  One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
noun:  The percent sign, %.
noun:  An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.

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