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TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-five percent mean? 

TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (noun)
  The noun TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT has 1 sense:

1. one of four equal partsplay

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

fourth; fourth part; one-fourth; one-quarter; quarter; quartern; twenty-five percent

Context example:

a quarter of a pound

Hypernyms ("twenty-five percent" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)


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