TWENTY PERCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty percent mean? 

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

1. one part in five equal parts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY PERCENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One part in five equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

fifth; fifth part; one-fifth; twenty percent

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

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

 Context examples 

Metastases occur in approximately twenty percent of the cases.

(Adult Type Testicular Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)