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cent
I. \ˈsent\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French, hundred, from Latin centum — more at hundred
1.
a. : a unit of value equal to 1/100 part of some basic monetary unit (as in the United States and Canada 1/100 dollar, in Sri Lanka 1/100 rupee, in British East Africa 1/100 shilling, in the Netherlands 1/100 guilder, in Indonesia 1/100 rupiah) — see money table
b. : a coin or token, often of copper or some copper alloy, representing one cent
c. : a note representing one cent; specifically : a Hong Kong note representing 1/100 Hong Kong dollar
d. : a coin similar to a cent (as to the United States or Canadian cent) but not equal to 1/100 unit of value (as in the British West Indies a halfpenny)
e. : a smallest unit of money : a petty sum of money : mite
< didn't make a cent on the deal >
< haven't got a cent >
2. : an old card game similar to piquet — called also sant
3. : the interval between two pure tones whose frequency ratio is the 1200th root of 2 or the 100th root of the tempered semitone interval
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- cent per cent
II. abbreviation
1. cental
2. center; central
3. centiare
4. centigrade
5. centime
6. centum
7. century
III. noun
: a common monetary unit of most countries of the European Union equivalent to 1/100 euro — see birr, dollar, euro, gulden, leone, lilangeni, rand, rupee, shilling, Somali shilling, yuan at money table in the Dict |