different between percentage vs fraction
percentage
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)
- 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.
- A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
- She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
- (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)
- percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)
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fraction
English
Etymology
From Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraction, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus (English fracture), past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg- (English break).
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?k?sh?n, IPA(key): /?f?æk.??n/
- Rhymes: -æk??n
Noun
fraction (plural fractions)
- A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
- (arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar.
- (chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
- In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
- A small amount.
- The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:fraction.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
fraction (third-person singular simple present fractions, present participle fractioning, simple past and past participle fractioned)
- To divide or break into fractions.
Translations
References
- “fraction” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “fraction”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- "fraction" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Anagrams
- Croftian, factor in, infocrat
French
Etymology
From Old French fraction, borrowed from Latin fractio, fractionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ak.sj??/
Noun
fraction f (plural fractions)
- fraction (small amount)
- (mathematics) fraction
- fraction, breakup
Derived terms
- barre de fraction
- fractionnaire
- fractionner
Related terms
- fracture
Further reading
- “fraction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- fronçait
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