Cent
/sɛnt/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Cent
noun
- (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).
- A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
noun
- 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.
- The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
noun
- 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.
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- 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.
- A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
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SYNONYMS
pennydollarcenteurocentmiddlemidstcenter of gravitycenter of masscentroidmidpointcenturiayearhundred
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