Hundred vs Cent - What's the difference?
hundred | cent |
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
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(US, Canada) A hundred-dollar bill.
(historical) An administrative subdivision of land in southern English counties and in other countries.
(cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
(label) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: .
(label) A small sum of money.
(label) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
(label) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
(label) A hundredth of a half step.
As nouns the difference between hundred and cent
is that hundred is a hundred-dollar bill while cent is a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.As a numeral hundred
is a numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.As an abbreviation cent is
century.hundred
English
(wikipedia hundred)Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: C * ISO prefix: hecto- * Exponential notation: 102Numeral
(en noun)- hundreds' of places, ' hundreds of thousands of faces
- a hundred', one ' hundred
- nineteen hundred', one thousand nine ' hundred
- That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.
- [I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a hundred and seventy markets.
- Hanatonwas founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
- Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies
- Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine'', the word ''hundred'' is a noun like ''dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral. * a hundred''' men / one '''hundred''' men / the '''hundred men * compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men * compare ten men / the ten men Hundred'' can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take ''-s when preceded by a determiner. * two hundred''' men / some '''hundred men * hundreds of menSynonyms
* (numerical) one hundred *Derived terms
* hundredfold, hundredweight, hundredth, hundreds and thousands, hundredaireNoun
(en noun)- He made a hundred in the historic match.
