cent

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noun
  1. one 100th of the dollar, or other basic monetary unit, of various nations, including the United States. Symbol: ¢, c

  2. penny (def. 1): Sorry, I’ve only got two dimes, a nickel, and four cents.

  1. a monetary unit of certain European Union countries, one 100th of a euro.

Origin of cent

1
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Latin centēsimus “hundredth” (by shortening), equivalent to cent(um) “100” (see hundred) + -ēsimus ordinal suffix

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Other definitions for cent- (2 of 3)

cent-

  1. variant of centi- before a vowel: centare.

Other definitions for cent. (3 of 3)

cent.

abbreviation
  1. centigrade.

  2. central.

  1. centum.

  2. century.

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British Dictionary definitions for cent

cent

/ (sɛnt) /


noun
  1. a monetary unit of American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brunei, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guyana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Namibia, Nauru, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, the United States, the Vatican City, the Virgin Islands, and Zimbabwe. It is worth one hundredth of their respective standard units

  2. an interval of pitch between two frequencies f 2 and f 1 equal to 3986.31 log (f 2 / f 1); one twelve-hundredth of the interval between two frequencies having the ratio 1:2 (an octave)

Origin of cent

1
C16: from Latin centēsimus hundredth, from centum hundred

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Other Idioms and Phrases with cent

cent

see for two cents; not worth a dime (red cent); put in one's two cents.

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