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(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

(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).

(informal) A small sum of money.

(music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.

(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.

Abbreviation of century. [A period of one hundred 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.]

Abbreviation of centigrade. [(uncountable) A centigrade scale for temperature having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure.]

Abbreviation of center. [The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.]

(obsolete, except in per cent and cent percent) Abbreviation of Latincentum (“one hundred”).