Definition of "one percent" [one percent]

• One part in a hundred equal parts (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "By comparison, the R-squared effect size for media violence—including television—ranges anywhere from one percent to nine percent."
• "According to the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood, in 1967 only one percent of wives between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four did not expect to have a child."
• ""Yes — but their accounting procedures … My God, Line, if we did one percent of this in the States the SEC'd have our asses in a sling and we'd end up in jail for fifty years.""