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  (sĕnt) pronunciation
n. (Abbr. ct.)

A unit of currency in Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Republic of China (Taiwan), Cyprus, Dominica, East Timor, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United States, Vatican City, and Zimbabwe.

[Middle English, from Old French, hundred, from Latin centum.]

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. The lack of the plural suffix –s in such constructions is also found with units of measurement like foot and pound. See Note at foot.


 
 
Measures and Units: cent

[Etymology: Lat: hundred, also hundredth] The term is very familiar as a hundredth of a dollar and as ‘centi’, the prefix for the parallel division of the metric units. It is used in various circumstances for this purpose, and also for the reciprocal, i.e. a unit, such as the cental, that is 100 times another (for which ‘hecto’is the metric prefix).

sub-atomic physics USA For reactivity, 1/100 dollar.

music An interval such that 100 cents = 1 semitone on the scale of equal temperament, so 1 200 cents = 1 octave and 1 cent represents a multiplication of frequency by


= 1.000 578~; for frequencies f1 and f2, the latter the higher, the difference in cents is:
1 200 × log2(f2/f1) = 3 986.314~ × log10(f2/f1).
Compare centi-octave, which has 100 units to the octave.

 
Word Tutor: cent
pronunciation

IN BRIEF: A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit.

pronunciation A lawyer is someone willing to spend every cent you own to prove he's right. — Unknown from www.zaadz.com.

Tutor's tip: The cent (a penny) he sent (past of send) had a strange scent (smell).

 
Wikipedia: cent (currency)
¢ c

In currency, the cent is a monetary unit that equals 1/100 of various countries' basic monetary units. The word also refers to the coin which is worth one cent.

In the United States, Canada and Ireland, the 1¢ coin is generally known by the nickname penny, alluding to the British coin and unit of that name.

Etymology

A United States cent, or 1¢ or a penny.

A Euro cent, showing the common reverse side. The obverse side is country-specific.
¤ • Currency signs

฿ • ₵ • ¢ • $ • ₡ • ₫ • € • ƒ • ₲ • ₭
£ • ₤ • Lm • ₥ • ₦ • ₱ • P • R • руб • ₨
৲ • S/. • ৳ • R$ • $ • ₮ • ₩ • ¥ • zł • ₴ • ₪

Former signs
₳ • ₢ • ₰ • ₯ • ₠ • ₣ • ℳ • ₧ • I/.

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apostrophe ( ’ ' )
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dashes ( ‒, –, —, ― )
ellipsis ( …, ... )
exclamation mark ( ! )
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guillemets ( « » )
hyphen ( -, ‐ )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ” )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/stroke ( / )
solidus ( ∕ )
Interword separation

spaces ( ) ( ) ( )
interpunct ( · )
General typography

ampersand ( & )
asterisk ( * )
at ( @ )
backslash ( \ )
bullet ( • )
caret ( ^ )
currency ( ¤ ) ¢, $, €, £, ¥, ₩, ₪
dagger/obelisk ( † ) ( ‡ )
degree ( ° )
inverted exclamation point ( ¡ )
inverted question mark ( ¿ )
number sign ( # )
numero sign ( № )
percent and related signs
( %, ‰, ‱ )
pilcrow ( )
prime ( ′ )
section sign ( § )
tilde/swung dash ( ~ )
umlaut/diaeresis ( ¨ )
underscore/understrike ( _ )
vertical/pipe/broken bar ( |, ¦ )
Uncommon typography

asterism ( ⁂ )
index/fist ( ☞ )
therefore sign ( ∴ )
lozenge ( ◊ )
interrobang ( ‽ )
irony mark ( ؟ )
reference mark ( ※ )
sarcasm mark (+ +)

Etymologically, the word cent derives from the Latin word centum meaning hundred.

Symbol

Cent amounts between 1 cent and 99 cents are often indicated by the one or two digits followed by the cent sign, a lower-case letter c pierced top to bottom by a forward slash or a vertical line: ¢ (2¢, 99¢). Where the cent sign is not available (Such as in ASCII), a lower-case letter c on its own is used (2c, 99c). In the United States and Canada, the first usage is more common, while in Australia, New Zealand and the Eurozone, the second usage is more common. In South Africa only the latter is ever used. In spreadsheets, the format $0.99 is common, since it makes it simpler to keep the decimal points aligned.

It is notable that when written the cent sign follows the amount, versus a larger currency symbol placed at the beginning of the amount. For example 2¢ and $.02.

The symbol "¢" has Unicode code point U+00A2 (inherited from Latin-1)[1], and the decimal representation is 162. In HTML it can be entered as &cent; or &#162;

On most versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, the symbol "¢" can be made in ANSI by holding the ALT key and typing the number 155 (ALT + 155) (or Alt + 0162) on the ten-key number pad. However, this method will not necessarily work on systems set for other than Western European regional settings (for example, it won’t produce the ¢ on Central European, Cyrillic or Greek Input-method editors). On most any version of Mac OS and Mac OSX, use Option + 4 on the number row.

The cent sign is not to be confused with the colón sign ₡, which has a code point U+20A1 in Unicode (or 8353 in decimal); or the cedi sign ₵, which has a code point U+20B5 in Unicode (or 8373 in decimal).

Usage

Mints all over the world usually create coins with values up to between the equivalent of 0.1 ~ 10 U.S. dollars, while reserving banknotes for higher values. As inflation lowers the value of currencies, many have replaced the lowest-valued banknotes with coins (Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, pound sterling, euro), removed the lowest-valued coins from circulation, and/or introduced higher-valued bills. The U.S. dollar is a notable holdout, using a $1 bill along with a (less-popular) coin, where all other industralized nations use solely a coin for the approximate equivalent value.

Other monetary unit subdivision systems are possible, such as the old pound sterling, which until decimalisation in 1971 was subdivided into 20 shillings (s) or into 240 old pence (d).

Examples of currencies around the world featuring cents, or related words from the same root such as centimo, centesimo, sen, are:

Examples of currencies which do not feature cents

External links

Cent derivatives
cent · centavo · céntimo · centime · centesimo

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Translations: Translations for: Cent

Dansk (Danish)
n. - cent

idioms:

  • per cent    procent

Nederlands (Dutch)
cent

Français (French)
n. - cent

Deutsch (German)
n. - Cent

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οικον.) σεντ(σι), εκατοστό του δολαρίου

idioms:

  • per cent    (επί) τοις εκατό

Italiano (Italian)
cent, centesimo

idioms:

  • per cent    percento

Português (Portuguese)
n. - centavo (m)

idioms:

  • per cent    por cento

Русский (Russian)
цент

idioms:

  • per cent    процент

Español (Spanish)
n. - céntimo, centavo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - cent (mynt.)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
分

idioms:

  • per cent    百分数

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 分

idioms:

  • per cent    百分比

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 센트, 백, 푼돈

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - セント, 1セント銅貨

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جزء من مئه من الدولار‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סנט (מטבע)‬

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