Percent vs Perceant - What's the difference?
percent | perceant |
A part or other object per hundred
percentage.
Expressed in percents; usually together with a number.
*1590 , (Edmund Spendser), The Faerie Queene , I.10:
*:wondrous quick and persant was his spright, / As Eagles eye, that can behold the Sunne [...].
As adjectives the difference between percent and perceant
is that percent is expressed in percents; usually together with a number while perceant is .As a noun percent
is a part or other object per hundred.percent
English
Alternative forms
* per cent (mostly UK) * (archaic)Noun
(en-noun)- A resolution must receive fifty-one percent of the votes to pass.
Usage notes
* A percentage is often denoted by the character . *: 50% denotes ''50 percent . * The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point, not by percent.Derived terms
* percentage * percentwiseAdjective
(-)- ''I got a ten percent raise!
- ''The whisky usually contains over fifty percent alcohol by volume in the maturing casks, while the commercial brands are diluted to 40 to 45 percent.
