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Tweet abbr. 1. centigrade 2. Latin centum (hundred) 3. century |
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n. Abbr. ct. A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of various currencies, including the US dollar and the euro. [Middle English, from Old French, hundred, from Latin centum; see dek in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] 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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