"percentage rate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: percentage rates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} percentage rate (plural percentage rates)
  1. A measure to show a change or relationship between two numbers as a fraction of 100, over a certain time.
    Sense id: en-percentage_rate-en-noun-rkm368v3
  2. (finance, mathematics) A coefficient, expressed as a fraction of 100, of the quotient of two numbers over a specified period of time, where the denominator has the same units as the numerator but is adjusted by a unit of time. This measure indicates the proportion of a part in relation to a whole and is commonly used to describe rates of interest, growth, or change in financial and economic contexts, expressed in percentage points. Categories (topical): Finance, Mathematics, Mathematics Related terms: Annual percentage rate Translations (coefficient): 百分點 (Chinese Mandarin), 百分点 (bǎifēndiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), prosentuaalinen muutosvauhti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-percentage_rate-en-noun-rMLvwMzy Disambiguation of Mathematics: 14 86 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 86 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 16 84 Topics: business, finance, mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'coefficient': 3 97

Inflected forms

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