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Definition: One Percent |
One PercentNoun1. One part in a hundred. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: One PercentSynonyms: hundredth (n), one-hundredth (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: One Percent |
| Specialty definitions using "one percent": Base Flood, basis point ♦ controlling person, core capital ♦ discount point ♦ Foreign State of Chargeability ♦ HIGH-SULFUR COAL ♦ Insurance, Particular Average ♦ LOW-SULFUR COAL, LOW-SULFUR OIL, Lump-sum payments ♦ main stage, METHYL TERTIARY BUTYLETHER ♦ Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary, Nonfriable Asbestos-Containing Materials ♦ One Percent Chance Flood ♦ Quick Tables ♦ risk-based capital ♦ Source material, Summary Tape File ♦ trace gas ♦ Unisys Corporation ♦ world-wide web. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. (Wall Street; writing credit: Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, and Martin Sheen as Carl Fox.) Only one percent requires creative intelligence. (The Caine Mutiny; writing credit: Herman Wouk; Stanley Roberts) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In the population at large, the chance of developing MS is less than a tenth of one percent. (references) | |
In adults, the prevalence of food allergy drops to about one percent of the total population. (references) | ||
However, damage to the pituitary or eye nerves occurs in less than one percent of pregnant women with prolactinoma. (references) | ||
Business | Less than one percent of the whole population of Kazakhstan has medical insurance. (references) | |
In 1999, the estimated size of this type of commerce was HUF 209 million (USD 774,000) or less than one percent of total retail sales. (references) | ||
There currently exists a 9 percent tariff on all imported goods, which will drop one percent each year until 2003 when it will reach 6 percent. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | The U.S. share was less than one percent. (references) |
Brazil | Imports represent about one percent of the market. (references) | |
Indonesia | Only around one percent of Indonesians currently pay income taxes. (references) | |
Political Economy | PARAGUAY | Agriculture makes up over 25 percent of GDP, but contributes less than one percent of government revenue. (references) |
PERU | The importer must pay up to one percent of the FOB value of the goods to cover the cost of the inspection. (references) | |
SWITZERLAND | In addition, all food products with a genetically modified organism content above one percent must be labeled as such. (references) | |
Trade | Venezuela | All imports are assessed a one percent customs handling charge. (references) |
Costa Rica | Surcharge (Law 6966): Levied on the CIF value only; one percent of CIF. (references) | |
Venezuela | The one percent customs handling charge must be paid and is not reimbursable. (references) | |
Travel | Uzbekistan | Residents of Uzbekistan can bring up to US$10,000 into the country free of charge, but amounts imported in excess of US$10,000 are subject to a one percent customs fee. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
one percent realty | 28 |
one percent | 14 |
hundred mortgage one percent | 2 |
hundred loan one percent | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "one percent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 一分 (a minute, duty, honor, one hundredth, one quarter ryou, one tenth, one tenth of a sun), 分 (branch, chance of winning, degree, detached, dividing, duty, kind, lot, minute, odds, one-hundredth of a shaku, one-quarter of a ryou, one's lot, one's status, part, percentage, rate, ration, relation, segment, share, thickness). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ぶ (category, chance of winning, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine, department, despise, make light of, odds, one-hundredth of a shaku, one-quarter of a ryou, part, percentage, rate, thickness), いちぶ (a part, one hundredth, one quarter ryou, one tenth, one tenth of a sun, partly, some). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oneay ercentpay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-n-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: cretonne, neoprene, pretence, tenpence. | |
-3 letters: centner, enteron, pentene, percent, potence, precent, preteen, tenoner, terpene. | |
-4 letters: cenote, center, centre, conner, copter, cornet, crepon, encore, entree, eterne, nocent, opener, pecten, penner, pereon, ponent, poteen, recent, recept, rennet, reopen, repent, retene, teener, tenner, tenrec, tonner. | |
-5 letters: cento, conte, copen, coper, creep, crepe, crept, crone, enter, erect, netop. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-n-n-o-p-r-t" | |
+5 letters: counterresponse, parthenogenetic, superconvenient. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 6E 65 50 65 72 63 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O n e   P e r c e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 006E 0065 0050 0065 0072 0063 0065 006E 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498071250718469718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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