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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation centigrade
  • abbreviation Latin centum (hundred)
  • abbreviation century

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Examples

  • I am happy that today I can still pick my nose and I get immediate results (breathing better) and it doesn't cost me a friggin cent. lol

    TiVo is coming to Canada. Inspired or irrelevant? | Sync Blog 2007

  • Lying west of the Great Lakes are 171,000,000 acres of arable land, and only about four per cent. is yet under cultivation.

    Technical Education 1906

  • Our books do not pass through the hands of General Agents, (as nearly all other subscription works do,) therefore we are enabled to give our canvassers the extra per cent. which is usually allowed to General Agents.

    The Secrets of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • The interpretation of the asses or centesimoe usuroe at twelve, the unciarioe at one per cent., is maintained by the best critics and civilians: Noodt, (l.ii. c. 2, p. 207,) Gravina, (Opp.p. 205,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Ninety per cent. of the saloons, gambling houses, and vice dens in Philadelphia have closed down tight as a result of the recent police drive, General Smedley D.

    Devil Dog David Talbot 2010

  • Drop more tonnage smack in the midst of Germany, where people live and where no bombs will go to waste: “The 99 per cent. which miss the military target all help to kill, damage, frighten or interfere with Germans in Germany and the whole 100 per cent. of the bomber organisation is doing useful work, and not merely 1 per cent. of it.”

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • On the legal pad, Grace wrote the equation: Late twentieth cent. + large Amer. cities + ?

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • They only charged two per cent. a month and made quite a good living out of it, considering they hardly ever had a bad debt.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • The same survey put the New Democrats at 19 per cent, the Bloc Quebecois at 11 per cent and the Greens at 8 per cent. h4 class="regseriflbl large"More related to this story Read the Feb. 23, 2011, EKOS poll

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Gloria Galloway 2011

  • The same survey put the New Democrats at 19 per cent, the Bloc Quebecois at 11 per cent and the Greens at 8 per cent. h4 class="regseriflbl large"More related to this story Read the Feb. 23, 2011, EKOS poll

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Gloria Galloway 2011

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