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percentage points

percentage points is the plural of percentage point.

Meaning of percentage point

Noun

percentage point (plural percentage points)

  1. One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages.
    • The difference between 20 percent and 30 percent is 10 percentage points, not 10 percent. In fact, an increase from 20 to 30 percent is an increase of 50 percent. Only if, for example, 20 percent of buyers choose a certain company's products in one year and 22 percent do so the next year, can one...
    Synonyms:
    ppt, pp, %p

Questions about percentage points

What is percentage points the plural of?
Percentage points is the plural of percentage point.

Words near percentage points in the dictionary

  1. percent-encoding
  2. percent-encodings
  3. percentage
  4. percentage dice
  5. percentage point
  6. percentage points
  7. percentage rate
  8. percentage rates
  9. percentages
  10. percentagewise
  11. percental

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