cent
Multiple Entries:cent cent.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cent/sent/
▶noun
- 1 a monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a dollar, euro, or other decimal currency unit.
- 2 Music one hundredth of a semitone.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘a hundred’): from Fr. cent, Ital. cento, or L. centum ‘hundred’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cent.
▶abbreviation century.
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