cent

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/sɛnt/ English

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(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
A small sum of money.“He blew every last cent.”
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
(money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).

The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
The point on a line that is midway between the ends.

A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.
A single degree on this scale.“a temperature of 34 centigrades”
A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.

(Sanskrit and other Indian philology) satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic
Perfect score on a board exam

A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.