per cent
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
per cent /pəˈsent/ (also US percent)
▶adverb by a specified amount in or for every hundred. ▶noun one part in every hundred.
■ the rate, number, or amount in each hundred.
'per cent' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolute alcohol
- arkose
- Britannia metal
- Britannia silver
- centimorgan
- electrum
- fully
- golden share
- greywacke
- hover
- hundred
- nitrogen
- oxygen
- p.c.
- proof spirit
- rectified spirit
- sterling silver
- terne
- thumping
- wacke
