cent

IPA: sˈɛnt

(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.]

Examples of "cent" in Sentences

The vending machine only accepted coins in multiples of ten or twenty, not in cents
She only had a few cents left in her wallet, just enough to buy a piece of candy
The price of the item was marked at 99 cents, a bargain for such a high-quality product
He saved up all his spare change for months and finally had enough to make a dollar in cents
The charity donation box collected spare change and dollars, encouraging people to give even just a few cents