percentage (age asig)

[Lat. per cent (um); Eng. suff.- age.] 1. A proportionate amount or quantity in or for each hundred; a certain or stated rate per ce t. "Whose gains consist in a percentage on our lo es." Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xix. 2. An allowance, discount, rate of interest or commi ion on each hundred. per-çěpt, subst . [Lat. perceptum =a thing perceived; neut. sing. of percept us , pa. par. of percipio =to perceive.] The object of the act of perception; that which is perceived.