Cent

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  • noun. A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of various currencies, including the US dollar and the euro.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A hundred.
  • noun. The hundredth part of a dollar, a rupee, or a florin; especially, in the United States, a coin of copper, or copper and nickel, whose value is the hundredth part of a dollar, or about the same as an English half-penny.
  • noun. An old superficial measure of Belgium, the hundredth part of the bonnier.
  • noun. An old game at cards: so called “because 100 was the game” (Nares). Also spelled sant and saint.
  • noun. An abbreviation of Latin centum, a hundred: used in per cent. for per centum (in or by the hundred): as, interest at 10 per cent.; fifty per cent. of the population.
  • noun. A name of various coins reckoned as the hundredth part of a dollar.
  • noun. An abbreviation of central;
  • noun. of centigrade;
  • noun. of century.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A hundred.
  • noun. A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
  • noun. An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  • noun. A small sum of money.
  • noun. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  • noun. A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  • noun. A hundredth of a half step.
  • abbreviation. century
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
  • noun. a fractional monetary unit of several countries
  • Word Usage
    "In the _Tribune_ of December 20, appeared a statement of the test to ascertain the accuracy of the meter used, which showed that in an aggregate of twelve tests it varied nearly three per cent in its record from the actual quantity delivered, while at times it was so erratic that it varied in one instance over _ten per cent_."
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