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pct

pct is the abbreviation of percent.

Meaning of percent

Noun

percent (plural percent or percents)

  1. A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
    • only a small percent attain the top ranks
  2. One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
    • And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay.2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin, page 254
  3. The percent sign, %.
  4. An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
    • […]Several stocks in the Three Per Cents and Three Per Cents Reduced to be transferred into the name and to the credit of the prosecutor, without any authority to him (the traverser) to sell, negotiate, transfer or pledge the said 9000l. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities.1848, Edward W. Cox, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, editor, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts of England and Ireland: Volume II 1868 to 1848...

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Proper noun capitalized: PCT

PCT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Patent Cooperation Treaty.
    • The significance of this language in section 102(e)(2) is that a PCT application can serve as prior art even though the applicant never files in the United States.2022, Craig Allen Nard, The Law of Patents, Aspen Publishing, →ISBN
  2. (Pakistan, abbreviation) Abbreviation of Pakistan Cricket Team.

Noun capitalized: PCT

PCT (countable and uncountable, plural PCTs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of platoon combat team.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of perceptual control theory.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of post-coital tristesse.
  4. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of primary care trust.

Forms of pct

pluralpct
pluralPCTs

Questions about pct

What is pct the abbreviation of?
Pct is the abbreviation of percent.
What part of speech is pct?
Pct can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near pct in the dictionary

  1. PCRs
  2. pcs
  3. pcs.
  4. PCSO
  5. PCSOs
  6. pct
  7. pctl.
  8. PCTs
  9. PCU
  10. PCUs
  11. PCV

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