different between percentage vs hematocrit

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)

English

Alternative forms

• haematocrit

Etymology

From hemato- (“blood”) +? Ancient Greek ?????? (krit?s, “judge, umpire”), literally “to separate blood”, coined by Swedish physiologist Magnus Blix in 1891.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??mæt.?k.??t/

Noun

hematocrit (countable and uncountable, plural hematocrits)

1. (medicine) The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood.

   Synonyms: Ht, (abbreviation) HCT

2. (medicine, countable) A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood.

Translations

Further reading

• hematocrit at OneLook Dictionary Search
• hematocrit, haematocrit at Google Ngram Viewer
• hematocrit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chromatite

Romanian

Etymology

From French hématocrite

Noun

hematocrit n (plural hematocrite)

1. hematocrit

Declension