percentage sign

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspercent sign

   Broadercharacter

Questions about percentage sign

What does percentage sign mean?

percentage 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 percentage sign?

Close synonyms include percent 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 percentage sign a common word?

percentage 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.