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Dimmer levels are expressed as a percentage of the supply voltage. (100% = 240 Volts(UK)).

Percents are representations that have been adjusted to have a denominator of 100. They indicate the number of times a specific outcome occurs given one hundred attempts. An outcome that occurs with 44% frequency means that it will occur fourty four times out of one hundred.

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The measure of slope or inclination of track. See Grade.

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a special ratio that compares a number to 100 and uses the % sign; for example: 1/2 = 50% and 2/3 = 66 2/3

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(2) Per hundred, or out of a hundred. 1% means or 0.01; 15% means or 0.15. Example: “48% of the students in the school are boys" means that out of every 100 students in the school, 48 are boys.

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One part in a hundred; tells how many out of 100. For example, 5% = 5 out of 100.

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A ratio or fraction in which the second term on denominator is always 100.

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ratio where the second term is 100.

mathcentral.uregina.ca

Per hundred; times 1/100; times 0.01; 1 one-hundredth part. 15% means 15/100 or 0.15 of a number.

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A dimensionless number with the ratio of one (1) to one hundred (100). In the construction industry, it is mostly used to give the rise of fall of a pipe line, or road, in feet per 100 feet (i.e., a one (1) foot rise in one hundred (100) feet would be a plus 1% (one percent) grade).

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A part of some number to 100; the symbol for percent is %. Example: 40/100 = 40

A fraction or ratio in which the denominator is assumed to be 100. The symbol % is used for percent.

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a ratio having 100 as its second term

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Symbol is "%", which means, "per one hundred."

cstl.syr.edu

a proportion multiplied by 100

wordnet.princeton.edu

a ratio whose second term is

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Part of a hundred.

brookscole.com

A percent reflects the occurrence per 100 of the population and can be expressed in other formats (e.g., 25% can also be expressed as 25 in 100, one quarter, or 1 in 4). To compute a percent, divide the number of occurrences by the total population who could experience the occurrence and multiply by 100.

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a way of expressing a ratio to compare a number to 100. The first number in such a comparison is the percent. For example, 75:100 = 75%.

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A ratio that compares a number to 100. 45% means 45 hundredths.

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a special-case ratio in which the second term is always 100. The ratio is written as a whole number followed by a percent sign. (e.g., 25% means the ratio of 25 to 100).

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A percent is a ratio of a number to 100 expressed using the percent symbol %.

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A common fraction with 100 as its denominator. For example, 37% is 37/100.

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A ratio that compares a number to one hundred. The symbol for percent is %.

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A number expressed in relation to 100; represented by the symbol %(e.g., 40 parts out of 100 is 40%).

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Means per hundred and shows the ratio of a number to 100.

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