PER CENTUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

Synonyms:

pct; per centum; percent; percentage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("per centum" is a kind of...):

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "per centum"):

absentee rate (the percentage of workers who do not report to work)

occupancy rate (the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time)

vacancy rate (the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time)

unemployment rate (the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date)