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DictionarycentCurrency unit
noun

cent

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One hundredth of a major currency unit.

The cent coin lies beside a dollar bill worth one hundred times as much.

One U.S.
Etymology
centLatinhundred

Latin centum meant “hundred,” but under the influence of percent, cent came to mean a hundredth part. That fractional sense supplied the name for one hundredth of a dollar.

In context

mathantics10:15
one cent is just a fraction of a dollar (one one-hundredth of
Math Antics - Dollars And Cents

More examples

  • The pencil costs fifty cents.
  • She saves every spare cent.
  • A hundred cents make one dollar.

Forms

cent · cents

Similar words

penny
Commonly the one-cent coin rather than the abstract unit.
dollar
A major currency unit divided into one hundred cents.