different between assignment vs percentage

English

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.

Pronunciation

Noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

   This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

   We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

3. An assigned task.

   The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

4. A position to which someone is assigned.

   Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

5. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

   Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

6. (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

   The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

7. (law) A document that effects this transfer.

   Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

8. (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Hyponyms

• (programming): augmented assignment

Translations

References

• assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt?d??/
• Hyphenation: per?cent?age

Noun

percentage (plural percentages)

1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character (%).

Ex. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

Derived terms

Related terms

• percent
• percentile

Translations

Dutch

Alternative forms

• procentage (archaic)

Etymology

From percent +? -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.s?n?ta?.??/
• Hyphenation: per?cen?ta?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

percentage n (plural percentages)

1. percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)