An amount or share expressed as a percent. It can also mean the part of something that one group or amount makes up.
From “percent” plus the suffix “-age,” which often turns ideas into nouns meaning ‘a collection’ or ‘result.’ It formed in English as people needed a word for the amount represented by a percent.
Percentage is the ‘chunk’ you actually get when you use a percent. If percent is the idea ‘out of 100,’ percentage is the real slice you’re talking about in life, money, or data.
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