Look up: cent

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   cent
   [n] - a fractional monetary unit of several countries
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   Cent
   (US Currency and Slang) - Smallest unit. 100 cents = 1 dollar.
   Found on http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/money.htm
   
   
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   Cent
   A convenient way to measure intervals by the log of the frequency ratio. 100 cents make a semitone, 1200 cents make an octave. The interval in cents between two frequencies f1 and f2 is 1731.234 * ln (f2 / f1) where ln is the log to base e.
   Found on http://www.hibberts.co.uk/glossary.htm
   
   
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   Cent
   A musical cent is one hundredth of a semitone.
   Found on http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/music%
   
   
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   Cent
   In musical research, a unit of pitch change equal to 0.01 semitones.
   Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour
   
   
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   cent
   a nuclear unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics) • the euro...will be divided into one hundred sub-units with the name`cent` [VE1] Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • a logarithmic interval between two sounds when the logarithm to the base the 1,200th root of two of the freque...
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Cent
   Definition (keystage 2) An American unit of money, equal to a hundredth of a dollar or a euro. <br /> French for 100.
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   Cent
   Cent noun [ French cent hundred, Latin centum . See Hundred .] 1. A hundred; as, ten per cent , the proportion of ten parts in a hundred. 2. A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc. 3. An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/43
   
   
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   cent
   noun a fractional monetary unit of several countries
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    Cent
    From Latin centum = hundred; smallest European and American coin = a hundredth of a euro or dollar. Monetary units deriving from centum in other countries (until 2001): centavo (Portugal), centime (France), centimo (Spain).
    Found on http://www.austrian-mint.com/5
    
    
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    Cent
    `Cent` may refer to: *Cent (currency), a one-hundredth subdivision of several units of currency *Cent (music), a logarithmic measure of relative pitch or intervals *Cent (measure), an Indian measure of land *Cent (mass), a unit of mass for gemstones, equal to 1/100 of a Carat *Cents, Luxembourg, a quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg]
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    Cent
    • (n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred. • (n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. • (n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
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    cent
    
    1. a fractional monetary unit of several countries
    2. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
    
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    cent
    an old English unit of quantity, usually equal to 100 but sometimes 120 (the great or long hundred) or some other figure of similar size. The Latin number 100, centum, is also used in English works for this quantity.
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictC.
    
    
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    cent
    an informal name for 1/100 of almost any unit, for example, a centiliter (0.01 liter). Phrases such as '15 cents of an inch' were formerly common in English.
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    cent
    a unit used in music when it is necessary to specify the ratio in frequency between two tones with great precision. There are 100 cents in a semitone, or 1200 in an octave. If two notes differ by 1 cent, the ratio between their frequencies is 2^1/1200 or approximately 1.000 5778.
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictC.
    
    
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    cent
    a unit used in nuclear engineering to describe the 'reactivity' of a nuclear reactor, equal to 0.01 dollar. For a discussion of reactivity, see inhour.
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictC.
    
    
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    cent
    Subunit of the single European currency (euro) introduced in the euro area countries at the beginning of the third stage of Economic and Monetary Union on January 1, 1999. 1 euro is divided into 100 cent. The ISO currency code is EUR, and the symbol € is also used. In January 2002, the twelve euro area countries mastered the euro cash changeover an…
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    cent
    logarithmic frequency interval between two sounds having a fundamental-frequency ratio of the 1200th root of two NOTE 1 - One octave is equal to 1200 cents. NOTE 2 -The cent is used as a unit of logarithmic frequency interval.
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/