Per mille

"%o", "‰", and "Promille" redirect here. For the Finnish video game, see Promille (video game). For the format string specifiers, see printf format string and scanf format string. Not to be confused with %, indicating parts per hundred, or with ‱, indicating parts per ten thousand. Not to be confused with parts per million.

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Per mille
In UnicodeU+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN (‰)
Related
See alsoU+0025 % PERCENT SIGN
U+2031 ‱ PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN (Basis point)

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.

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]

The symbol is included in the General Punctuation block of Unicode at U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d e "per mil". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c "per mille". Cambridge Dictionary. Business English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2020-06-08. per mille adverb (also per mil)
  3. ^ a b "per mill". Oxford Dictionaries: The American Dictionary. Archived from the original on August 9, 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  4. ^ a b Heinz Gamsjäger; John W. Lorimer; Pirketta Scharlin; David G. Shaw (2008). "Glossary of terms related to solubility". Pure Appl. Chem. 80 (2): 233–276. doi:10.1351/pac200880020233. (Page 258)
  5. ^ a b Unicode. "General Punctuation". 2014. Accessed 5 Aug 2014.
  6. ^ "per mille". Longman Business Dictionary. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  7. ^ "Promille in English". Cambridge German – English Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 24 September 2023.