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PERCENTAGE SIGN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does percentage sign mean?

• PERCENTAGE SIGN (noun)
The noun PERCENTAGE SIGN has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: PERCENTAGE SIGN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PERCENTAGE SIGN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

percent sign; percentage sign

Hypernyms ("percentage sign" is a kind of...):

character; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

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