percent vs per cent
percent
Definitions
noun
- a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
Examples
You can't win in this world unless you are 100 percent flexible, and none of us are that.
This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11
It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 percent of the gross national product in official aid.
