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cent
(sĕnt)n. Abbr. ct.
A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of various currencies, including the US dollar and the euro.
Our Living Language The plural of cent is cent in some varieties of vernacular Southern English when preceded by a numeral: That costs eighty cent. See Note at foot
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cent
(sɛnt)n
1. (Currencies) a monetary unit of American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brunei, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guyana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Namibia, Nauru, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, the United States, the Vatican City, the Virgin Islands, and Zimbabwe. It is worth one hundredth of their respective standard units
2. (Units) an interval of pitch between two frequencies f2 and f1 equal to 3986.31 log (f2/f1); one twelve-hundredth of the interval between two frequencies having the ratio 1:2 (an octave)
[C16: from Latin centēsimus hundredth, from centum hundred]
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cent
(sɛnt)n.
1. a bronze coin and monetary unit of the U.S., equal to 1/100 of the dollar. Symbol: ¢
2. a monetary unit of various other nations, including Ethiopia, the Netherlands, South Africa, and many Commonwealth nations, equal to 1/100 of the basic currency.
[1325–75; Middle English < Latin centēsimus hundredth (by shortening), derivative of cent(um) 100]
cent.
1. centigrade.
2. central.
3. centum.
4. century.
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| Noun | 1. |  cent - a fractional monetary unit of several countriesdollar - the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents fractional monetary unit, subunit - a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit birr - the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 cents Dutch florin, florin, guilder, gulden - formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents leone - the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents lilangeni - the basic unit of money in Swaziland; equal to 100 cents rand - the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents Mauritian rupee, rupee - the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents Seychelles rupee, rupee - the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents rupee, Sri Lanka rupee - the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents |
| 2. | cent - a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit coin - a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money copper - a copper penny new penny - a coin used in Great Britain since 1971 worth one hundredth of a pound |
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Translations
سِنْتسِنْت :جُزءٌ من مِئَة من الدولار
cent
cent
sentti
cent
centpenny
sent
セント
센트
centas
cents
centstotin
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หน่วยเงินเซ็นต์
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[sent] N (= division of dollar) → centavo m; (= division of euro) → céntimo mI haven't a cent (US) → no tengo ni un céntimo or (LAm) ni un peso
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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[ˈsɛnt] nCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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[sɛnt] n (Am) (coin) → centesimo (1:100 di un dollaro)I haven't a cent → non ho una lira or un centesimo
see also per cent
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
cent
(sent) noun a coin equal to the hundredth part of a dollar, rupee, rand etc.
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→ سِنْت cent cent Cent λεπτό céntimo sentti centime cent centesimo セント 센트 cent cent cent centavo цент cent หน่วยเงินเซ็นต์ sent xu 分Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009