cent

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. See Table at currency.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A hundred.
2. n. The hundredth part of a dollar, a rupee, or a florin; especially, in the United States, a coin of copper, or copper and nickel, whose value is the hundredth part of a dollar, or about the same as an English half-penny. Other dollars are divided in the same way, as the Spanish dollar, duro, of piastre, though not in Spain; also, the Dutch florin and the East Indian rupee in Ceylon and the Mauritius. Abbreviated c. or ct.
3. n. An old superficial measure of Belgium, the hundredth part of the bonnier.
4. n. An old game at cards: so called “because 100 was the game” (Nares). Also spelled sant and saint.
5. n. An abbreviation of Latin centum, a hundred: used in per cent. for per centum (in or by the hundred): as, interest at 10 per cent.; fifty per cent. of the population.
6. n. A name of various coins reckoned as the hundredth part of a dollar. a current subsidiary coin of British North America, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Danish West Indies, Hawaii, Fiji, Liberia, Cuba, Guam, the Philippine Islands, and Porto Rico, equal to one United States cent.
7. n. An abbreviation of central;
8. n. of centigrade;
9. n. of century.

Wiktionary

1. n. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries, including the United States. Symbol: ¢.
2. n. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
3. n. A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
4. n. A hundredth of a half step.
5. abbr. century

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A hundred.
2. n. A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
3. n. An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
2. n. a fractional monetary unit of several countries