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Amount vs Percent - What's the difference?

amount | percent |

As nouns the difference between amount and percent

is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english) while percent is a part or other object per hundred.

As a verb amount

is to total or evaluate.

As an adjective percent is

expressed in percents; usually together with a number.

amount

English

(Quantity)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
  • A quantity or volume.
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  • The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
  • * 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
    • The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

    Derived terms

    * principal amount * notional amount

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To total or evaluate.
    • It amounts to three dollars and change.
  • To be the same as or equivalent to.
    • He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
    His response amounted to gross insubordination
  • (obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
  • * Spenser
    • So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

    Derived terms

    * amount to

    See also

    * extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * size

    External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words

    percent

    English

    Alternative forms

    * per cent (mostly UK) * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A part or other object per hundred
    • A resolution must receive fifty-one percent of the votes to pass.
  • percentage.

    • Usage notes

    * A percentage is often denoted by the character . *: 50% denotes ''50 percent . * The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point, not by percent.

    Derived terms

    * percentage * percentwise

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Expressed in percents; usually together with a number.
    • ''I got a ten percent raise!
    ''The whisky usually contains over fifty percent alcohol by volume in the maturing casks, while the commercial brands are diluted to 40 to 45 percent.

    See also

    * per mille, permille, * per myriad, * ppm, ppb, ppt, ppq (typography marks) ----