Definition:Per Cent/Also known as

Per Cent: Also known as

The phrase per cent can often be seen rendered as percent.

Some older works, from an era when punctuation was required to be more precise, render the phrase as per cent., that is, with a following "." in order to indicate that it is an abbreviation.

It is a welcome evolution of the English language that such fussiness has since been dispensed with.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): percent
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): percent