%
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Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom o/c, from No/c, an abbreviation of Italian numero per cento (“number per hundred”). For the extension to Astraea, shift-5 on the keyboard for asteroid (5).
Symbol
edit% (English symbol name percent sign)
- The percent; portion of a total of 100.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page x:
- For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
- Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
- Decomposition of 4 in the presence of cis-piperylene at room temperature results in the stereocontrolled formation of trans-cycloheptadiene 27 in 90% ee (96% ee at -78 °C).
- (computing) Used as a wildcard, usually in SQL, to stand for zero or more characters.
- (computing, programming) Used as the symbol for the modulus, placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
- (astrology, rare) the asteroid (5) Astraea.
- (Internet) Used in the percent-encoding of uniform resource identifiers such as URLs.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editEnglish
editEtymology
editBack-formation from any% or low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category. The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.
Pronunciation
editPronounced the same as percent.
Suffix
edit%
- (speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.
- (speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.
- P%
- Gears%
Derived terms
editCategory English terms suffixed with % not found
Chinese
editEtymology 1
editThe pronunciation is from English percent
Pronunciation
edit- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: pa
- Wade–Giles: pʻa1
- Yale: pā
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
- Palladius: па (pa)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Southern Min
Symbol
edit%
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
edit- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: pa
- Wade–Giles: pʻa1
- Yale: pā
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
- Palladius: па (pa)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Verb
edit%
- Alternative form of 啪 (“to have sex”)
Japanese
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