cent

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

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A small sum of money.

"He blew every last cent."

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(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.

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(money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).

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A hundredth of a semitone or half step.

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

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The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.

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The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.

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The point on a line that is midway between the ends.

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The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

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The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.

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A place where the greater part of some function or activity occurs.

"shopping center, convention center, civic center, garment center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Rockefeller Center"

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A topic that is particularly important in a given context.

"the center of attention"

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A player in the middle of the playing area

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A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.

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A pass played into the centre of the pitch.

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One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.

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A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.

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One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

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A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.

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The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.

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A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.

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A single degree on this scale.

"a temperature of 34 centigrades"

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A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.

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(Sanskrit and other Indian philology) satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic

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Perfect score on a board exam

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A period of 100 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.

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A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

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A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

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A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.

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A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

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A score of one hundred points.

"That was his tenth professional century."

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A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.