FIFTY PERCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty percent mean? 

• FIFTY PERCENT (noun)
  The noun FIFTY PERCENT has 1 sense:

1. a half expressed as a percentage

  Familiarity information: FIFTY PERCENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTY PERCENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A half expressed as a percentage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("fifty percent" is a kind of...):

half; one-half (one of two equal parts of a divisible whole)

 Context examples 

Approximately thirty to fifty percent of the tumors are bilateral.

(Ovarian Serous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Fifty percent or greater stenosis within an existing stent.

(In Stent Restenosis, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)