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  "id": "percent.ratio",
  "term": "percent",
  "sense": "ratio",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "percent",
  "domain": "percent",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a ratio of a part to a hundred",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "ratio.proportion",
      "part.relation",
      "hundred.quantity"
    ],
    "interaction": "the part to a hundred forms a ratio",
    "novel_properties": [
      "per hundred scale",
      "standardized fraction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, 68 of every 100 adults in Japan used smartphones daily, per Statista.",
      "domain": "society"
    },
    {
      "text": "The battery meter on a Tesla Model 3 shows remaining charge as a percent of full capacity.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2008 financial crisis, Lehman Brothers' assets included mortgage-backed securities worth 12% of total market value.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "ratio.proportion",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "per.ratio",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "percent",
    "percents"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-percent.ratio"
}