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noun
- 1. a unit of one percent: "interest rates rose by 1.75 percentage points"
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- Percentage point
Unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages
A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages. For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points (although it is a 10-percent increase in the quantity being measured, if the total amount remains the same). In written text, the unit (the percentage point) is usually either written out, or abbreviated as... Wikipedia
