percent sign

1. 1.

   a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100

   Synonymspercentage sign

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Questions about percent sign

What does percent sign mean?

percent sign means "a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100".

What is another word for percent sign?

Close synonyms include percentage sign. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is percent sign a common word?

percent sign is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.