cent
IPA: sˈɛnt
noun
- (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
- (informal) A small sum of money.
- (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).
- (music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
- Abbreviation of century. [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.]
- (obsolete, except in per cent and cent percent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred. [(Sanskrit and other Indian philology) Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.]
- Abbreviation of centigrade. [(uncountable) A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Although formally known as the Celsius scale since 1948, centigrade is still the more commonly found term.]
- Abbreviation of center. [The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.]
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Examples of "cent" in Sentences
- The shopkeeper gave him a cent.
- Even one cent is not picayune to him.
- The dole was two cents a day per man.
- The tea was a fundraiser, and the admission was 25 cents.
- The Board set the price of a quart of milk at nine cents.
- The 10 cent was scallop shaped, whilst the 15 cent was square.
- The Lincoln cent is the current one cent coin of the US Dollar.
- The video showcases the rough childhoods of 50 Cent and The Game.
- It was a part of the Achaemenid empire of Cyrus the Great in the 6th cent.
- In the United States, the cent was the base unit of denomination in copper.