PERCENT SIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does percent sign mean? 

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

1. a sign ('%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERCENT SIGN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sign ('%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

percent sign; percentage sign

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

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)