Cent may refer to:
Currency
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Cent (currency)
The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.
Etymologically, the word 'cent' derives from the Latin word meaning hundred.
The cent sign is commonly a simple minuscule (lower case) letter . ...
, a one-hundredth subdivision of several units of currency
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Penny (Canadian coin)
In Canada, a penny is a coin worth one cent, or of a dollar. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official national term for the coin is the "one-cent piece", but in practice the terms ''penny'' and ''cent'' predominate. ''Penny'' was li ...
, a Canadian coin removed from circulation in 2013
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1 cent (Dutch coin), a Dutch coin minted between 1941 and 1944
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1 cent euro coin
The 1 euro cent coin (€0.01) has a value of one hundredth of a euro and is composed of copper-covered steel. It is the lowest-value coin in the Eurozone, the next highest are the 2 and 5 euro cent coins. The coins of every Euro country have ...
, a European coin
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Penny (United States coin)
The cent, the United States one-cent coin (symbol: ¢), often called the "penny", is a unit of currency equaling one one-hundredth of a United States dollar. It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition o ...
, a United States coin
Locations
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Cents, Luxembourg
Cents ( lb, Zens) is a quarter in eastern Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.
, the quarter has a population of 6,325 inhabitants.
The area lies on the eastern side of the city, on an elevated area 60 metres above Clausen and Neudorf.
H ...
, a quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
* Cent, the Old English term for modern-day
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
, England
Measurement
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Cent (music)
The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. Twelve-tone equal temperament divides the octave into 12 semitones of 100 cents each. Typically, cents are used to express small intervals, or to compare the sizes of compara ...
, a logarithmic measure of relative pitch or intervals
*"Cent" is an informal name for of a
unit of measurement
A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude (mathematics), magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Any other quantity of that kind can ...
, as in "12 cents of an inch". Specifically, it can refer to:
:*an alternative name for the point, a unit of mass for gemstones equal to of a
carat
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Cent (area)
The cent is a customary unit of measurement still used in some parts of southern Indian states such as Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka despite the usual use of metric units for other instances. One cent is defined as an ...
, a unit of land area equal to of an acre (used in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu); also known as the
decimal (unit) A decimal (also spelled decimel bn, শতক) is a unit of area in Bangladesh. After metrication in the mid-20th century by both countries, the unit became officially obsolete. But among the rural population in Northern Bangladesh and West Bengal, ...
in West Bengal and Bangladesh
:*a unit of nuclear reactivity; see
Dollar (reactivity)
A dollar is a unit of reactivity for a nuclear reactor, calibrated to the interval between the conditions of delayed criticality and prompt criticality. Zero dollars is defined to be the threshold of slow criticality, which means a steady reaction ...
See also
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Century
A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word ''century'' comes from the Latin ''centum'', meaning ''one hundred''. ''Century'' is sometimes abbreviated as c.
A centennial or ...
, 100 consecutive years
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Percent
In mathematics, a percentage (from la, per centum, "by a hundred") is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%", although the abbreviations "pct.", "pct" and sometimes "pc" are also use ...
, 1 in 100
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Cent sign
The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.
Etymologically, the word 'cent' derives from the Latin word meaning hundred.
The cent sign is commonly a simple minuscule (lower case) letter . ...
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