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

  • adjective Relating to or divided into hundredths.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hundredth: as, a centesimal part.
  • By the hundred: as “centesimal increase,”
  • noun In arithmetic, a hundredth; the next step of progression after decimal in dividing by ten.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Hundredth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Divided into a hundred parts
  • adjective Describing a hundredth part

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
  • adjective relating to or divided into hundredths

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin centēsimus, from centum, hundred; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.]

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