different between percentage vs decimal

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)

Translingual

Etymology

From English decimal point

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dei?si??mal] ^[sic]

Numeral

decimal

1. Code word for the decimal point in the NATO/ICAO and ITU/IMO spelling alphabets.

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?d?s?m??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?s?m?l/

Noun

decimal (countable and uncountable, plural decimals)

1. (countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

   What is ⁷?₂₃ as a decimal?

2. (informal, uncountable) The decimal system itself.
3. (informal) A decimal place.

   Pi has a value of 3.142, to three decimals.

4. (informal) A decimal point.

Synonyms

• (number): See decimal number
• (system): See decimal system
• (place): See decimal place

Antonyms

• (fractional number): See fraction

Hyponyms

• binary-coded decimal

Related terms

Translations

References

• decimal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

decimal (not comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

Synonyms

• base-ten, denary (rare)

Translations

Verb

decimal (third-person singular simple present decimals, present participle decimaling, simple past and past participle decimaled)

1. to represent with numbers after a decimal point
   • 1984 Robert William Dent, Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616: An Index

     Single- decimaled entries, often originating in Whiting (Wh) or Wilson (OW; see p. 23, fn.3), are from SPL. To save space, examples cited in SPL are normally not repeated (examples therefore begin with "Add:"). Double- decimaled entries, again often based on Wh or OW, are "new."

   • 2001 Richard J. Harris A Primer of Multivariate Statistics page 54

     simplified, substantively interpretable versions of the optimal (but many-decimaled) linear combinations of your original variables

   • 2015 Brad Knickerbocker, It’s Pi Day! Let’s have some pie. Christian Science Monitor

     So naturally, 3/14 – the 14th of March – is celebrated as “Pi Day.” And since 3.14 is the beginning, not the end of Pi – it can be decimaled on out to infinity – and since the next two numbers are 1 and 5 voila! today’s date 3/14/15 is really special.

Derived terms

• decimaled
• decimalic
• decimalite

See also

• base
• binary
• octal
• duodecimal
• hexadecimal
• vigesimal
• sexagesimal

Anagrams

• camelid, claimed, declaim, maliced, medical

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus.

Adjective

decimal m or f (plural decimais, comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) decimal (concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal)

Noun

decimal m (plural decimais)

1. (countable) decimal (number expressed in the decimal system)

Related terms

• decimo

Romanian

Etymology

From French décimal.

Adjective

decimal m or n (feminine singular decimal?, masculine plural decimali, feminine and neuter plural decimale)

1. decimal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /de?i?mal/, [d?e.?i?mal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /desi?mal/, [d?e.si?mal]

Adjective

decimal (plural decimales)

1. decimal

Derived terms

• coma decimal
• punto decimal

Related terms

• décimo

Further reading

• “decimal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Adjective

decimal

1. decimal (using ten digits 0-9)

Declension

Related terms

• decimalbråk
• decimalkomma
• decimalsystem

See also

• binär
• oktal
• hexadecimal

Noun

decimal c

1. a decimal place (digits expressing decimal fractions)

Declension