Per mille
Unit for parts per thousand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"‰" redirects here. Not to be confused with %, indicating parts per hundred, or with ‱, indicating parts per ten thousand.
"%o" redirects here. For the format string specifiers, see printf format string and scanf format string.
Not to be confused with parts per million.
"Promille" redirects here. For the Finnish video game, see Promille (video game).
The phrase per mille (from Latin per mīlle 'in each thousand')[1] indicates parts per thousand.[2] The associated symbol is ‰, similar to a per cent sign % but with an extra zero in the divisor.
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In Unicode | U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN (‰) |
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See also | U+0025 % PERCENT SIGN U+2031 ‱ PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN (Basis point) |
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Major dictionaries do not agree on the spelling,[1][2][3] giving other options of per mil,[2] per mill,[1][3] permil,[1][4] permill,[1] permille.[5][6]
The word promille is the cognate in Dutch, German, Finnish and Swedish, and is sometimes seen as a loanword in English with the same meaning as per mille.[7][4]