Proportion vs Percentage - What's the difference?
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(lb) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
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(lb) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
(lb) Proper or equal share.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:Let the womendo the same things in their proportions and capacities.
The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
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*(Lancelot Ridley) (ca.1500-1576)
*:The image of Christ, made after his own proportion .
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
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*:Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.
A statement of equality between two ratios.
Size.
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, title= The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
A share of the profits.
(informal) Benefit or advantage.
As nouns the difference between percentage and proportion
is that percentage is the amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole while proportion is a quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.As a verb proportion is
to set or render in proportion.proportion
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Noun
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), work=The Onion AV Club , passage=What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?}}
Derived terms
* in proportion * proportional * proportionally * proportionate * proportionerExternal links
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Noun
(en noun)- A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year .
- She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
- There was no percentage in staying at home.
