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What is the noun for percentages?

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percentage
  1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
  2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
  3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The percentage of students who rarely or never wore a bicycle helmet decreased during the years from 1991 to 2001.”
      “There was no disagreement that she would be entitled to a certain percentage of the company's profit.”
      “The more funds raised, the higher the percentage paid to the agent as a finder's fee.”
percentile
  1. (statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
  2. (statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The percentile of students who scored above 90 on the exam was used to determine the cutoff for honors distinction.”
      “This is the antilog in terms of the original unit of measurement that defines the 50th percentile.”
      “In May of 2nd grade, her total standardized test results approached the 90th percentile!”
percenter
  1. (in combination, preceded by a number) A member of a group that forms a specified percentage of the population.
  2. (slang, entertainment, including sports) An agent.
percent
percentiles
  1. plural of percentile
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of the resulting distributions served as the upper and lower bounds of the confidence limit.”
      “Table 1, which contains the simulation results, therefore displays percentiles of this distribution.”
      “Comparison of population percentiles requires an adequate amount of data for statistical significance.”
percentages
  1. plural of percentage
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The proposal was tabled until the next meeting to allow the task force time to clearly define how the percentages would be determined.”
      “The sample of survey recipients selected was weighted using these percentages.”
      “Needless to say, these percentages are changing as the demographics of the online population change.”
percenters
  1. plural of percenter
percents
  1. plural of percent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For this and all subsequent tables, the numbers of cases on which the percents are based are indicated in parentheses.”
      “His followers weakened and were bribed back to work with a ten percents raise.”
      “Myself, I would say that to study ourselves is to become hundred percents attentive, namely to be conscious of the tiniest part of our being.”
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