Editing Per mille (section)

{{Short description|Unit for parts per thousand}}
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{{Redirect-multi|3|%o|‰|Promille|the Finnish video game|Promille (video game)|the format string specifiers|printf format string|and|scanf format string}} {{Not to be confused with|text=[[%]], indicating [[percentage|parts per hundred]], or with [[‱]], indicating [[basis point|parts per ten thousand]]}} {{distinguish|parts per million}}

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{{Use British English|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox symbol
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|name=Per mille
|unicode={{unichar|2030| html=}} 
|see also={{unichar|0025| nlink=percent sign}}<br />{{unichar|2031|nlink=basis point}} (Basis point)
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The phrase '''per mille''' ({{etymology|la|{{wikt-lang|la|per}} {{wikt-lang|la|mīlle}}|in each thousand}})<ref name=oed>{{cite OED|per mil}}</ref> indicates [[parts per thousand]].<ref name=cam>{{cite encyclopedia |title=per mille |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/per-mille |department=Business English |encyclopedia=[[Cambridge Dictionary]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=[[Cambridge]] |access-date=2020-06-08 |quote='''per mille''' ''adverb'' (also '''per mil''')}}</ref> The associated symbol is {{char|‰}}, similar to a [[per cent sign]] {{char|%}} but with an extra zero in the [[division (mathematics)|divisor]].

Major dictionaries do not agree on the spelling,<ref name=oed /><ref name=cam /><ref name=oad /> giving other options of '''per mil''',<ref name=cam/> '''per mill''',<ref name=oed/><ref name=oad>{{cite encyclopedia |title=per mill |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionaries: The American Dictionary |url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/per-mill |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809024811/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/per-mill |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 9, 2013 |access-date=2014-08-01}}</ref> '''permil''',<ref name=oed/><ref name="solubility" /> '''permill''',<ref name=oed/> '''permille'''.<ref name=uni/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=per mille |url=https://ldoceonline.com/noresult/?q=per%20mil |encyclopedia=[[Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English|Longman Business Dictionary]] |access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref> 

The word '''{{lang|de|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''.<ref>{{cite dictionary |entry=Promille in English |entry-url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/german-english/promille |title=Cambridge German{{snd}} English Dictionary |access-date=24 September 2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref name="solubility">{{cite journal |title=Glossary of terms related to solubility |journal=Pure Appl. Chem. |volume= 80 |number=2 |pages=233–276 |date=2008 |doi=10.1351/pac200880020233 |author1=Heinz Gamsjäger |author2=John W. Lorimer |author3=Pirketta Scharlin |author4=David G. Shaw|doi-access=free }} (Page 258)</ref>

The symbol is included in the [[General Punctuation (Unicode block)|General Punctuation]] block of [[Unicode]] at {{unichar|2030}}.<ref name=uni>Unicode. "[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf General Punctuation]". 2014. Accessed 5 Aug 2014.</ref> There is also an Arabic-Indic per mille sign at  {{unichar|0609}}.