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Translingual
Etymology
From o/c, from No/c, an abbreviation of Italian numero per cento (“number per hundred”). For the extension to Astraea is derived from the shift-5 key on the keyboard for asteroid (5).
Symbol
% (English symbol name percent sign)
- Indicates a portion from a total of a hundred.
- Synonyms: cU, centiuno
10% is equal to 10 portions from 100.
1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page x:For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
- Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
- Decomposition of 4 in the presence of cis-piperylene at room temperature results in the stereocontrolled formation of trans-cycloheptadiene 27 in 90% ee (96% ee at −78 °C).
- (computing) Used as a wildcard, usually in SQL, to stand for zero or more characters.
- Synonym: (regular expressions) *
- (computing, programming) Used as the symbol for the modulus, placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
- Synonyms: (mathematics) mod, modulus
- (astrology, rare) The asteroid (5) Astraea.
- Synonyms: , ⑤, ⯔
- (Internet) Used in the percent-encoding of uniform resource identifiers such as URLs.
Further reading
English
Etymology
Back-formation from any% or low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category.
The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.
Pronunciation
Pronounced the same as percent.
Suffix
%
- (speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.
- 100% ― 100% of the game must be completed
- any% ― any percentage completion is permitted
- low% ― the lowest possible completion is required
- (speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.
- P% ― requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify
- Gears% ― gear items are allowed as part of the run (whereas in the main category runs they would not be)
Derived terms
Chinese
Etymology 1
The pronunciation is from English percent
Pronunciation
Symbol
%
- (Taiwan) percent
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
%
- Alternative form of 啪 (“to have sex”)
Japanese
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