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percentage rate

percentage rate noun: a measure to show a change or relationship between two numbers as a fraction of 100, over a certain time.

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.
    • The annual percentage rate on the mortgage loan is 4.5%, indicating the cost of borrowing money on an annual basis, including interest and fees.
  2. 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.

Forms of percentage rate

pluralpercentage rates

Questions about percentage rate

What does percentage rate mean?
Percentage rate means a measure to show a change or relationship between two numbers as a fraction of 100, over a certain time.
What part of speech is percentage rate?
Percentage rate is a noun.
What is the plural of percentage rate?
The plural of percentage rate is percentage rates.

Words near percentage rate in the dictionary

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

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