Fifty Percent

  

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Fifty Percent

Definition: Fifty Percent

Fifty Percent

Noun

1. A half expressed as a percentage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Fifty Percent

Specialty definitions using "fifty percent": Speech Reception Threshold Test. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fifty Percent

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yeah, but I hear you take fifty percent. (Not for Publication; writing credit: Paul Bartel; John Meyer)

Movie/TV Titles

Fifty Percent Grey (2001)

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Commercial Usage: Fifty Percent

DomainTitle

Books

  • More than fifty percent : woman's life in a Newfoundland outport, 1900-1950 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Fifty Percent

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dakota. Tractor cost six or seven thousand dollars and burned. A mixture of about fifty percent kerosene and fifty percent water. The water was added to keep the valves from overheating.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fifty Percent

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Weight loss can occur and persist for some time. Thirty to fifty percent of patients with a symptomatic infection will develop pneumonia. (references)

Business

Fifty percent of all the contracts are renewed automatically, with the balance renegotiated prior to renewal. (references)

The number of ministries and commissions was reduced from 40 to 29 and government officials were to be cut by fifty percent. (references)

Franchise units and independent restaurants together generate an estimated fifty percent of food service sales in Canada and the same proportion of sales of new commercial cooking equipment. (references)

Economic History

Uk

Penetration rates are high at close to fifty percent. (references)

Australia

Local brand and clone manufacturers have an estimated fifty percent share of the local desktop market. (references)

Israel

Over fifty percent of the total food market directed at non-institutional consumers is sold through supermarkets and retail chains. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

Under the new law, approval is automatically granted for non-Bahamians to purchase residential property of less than five acres on any single island in The Bahamas, except where the property constitutes over fifty percent of the land area of a cay (small island) or involves ownership of an airport or marina. (references)

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Speeches: Fifty Percent

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Recent agreement to increase quotas by fifty percent will ensure the IMF has sufficient resources to perform its central role in promoting adjustment and financing payments imbalances.

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Modern Translations: Fifty Percent

Language Translations for "fifty percent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

百分之"十 . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftyfay ercentpay

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Anagrams: Fifty Percent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-f-i-n-p-r-t-t-y"

-3 letters: intercept.

-4 letters: entirety, eternity, frenetic, infecter, prentice, prettify, reinfect, reticent, terpenic.

-5 letters: certify, cittern, encrypt, enteric, enticer, fifteen, nettier, percent, perfect, petrify, pettier, precent, prefect, pyretic, receipt, rectify, tentier, tintype, tryptic, yperite.

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Alternative Orthography: Fifty Percent


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 66 74 79      50 65 72 63 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01100110 01110100 01111001 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#102 &#116 &#121 &#32 &#80 &#101 &#114 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0066 0074 0079      0050 0065 0072 0063 0065 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4075728691250718469718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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