Meanings
- archaicPercent.
Firearms, twenty-five per centum
1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 7872 more examples
On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511More than sixty per centum of the population of Australia is settled in the States along whose littoral the Lyrebird ranges[.]
1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 17
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent
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Origin
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