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Cent (unit of currency)
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
The cent is a unit of money in a large number of countries, always signifying one hundrednth of the basic monetary unit. The word cent is derived from the Latin centum, meaning "hundredth".
The cent is a subunit, equal to 1/100 of the primary unit, of the following monetary units:
- Australian dollar
- Bahamian dollar
- Barbados dollar
- Belizean dollar
- Bermudan dollar
- Bruneian dollar
- Canadian dollar
- Cayman Islands dollar
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands dollar
- Cook Islands dollar
- Cypriot pound
- East Caribbean States dollar
- Eritrean nakfa
- Estonian kroon
- European Union euro (adopted by 13 of the EU member nations)
- Fijian dollar
- Guyanese dollar
- Hong Kong dollar
- Principality of Hutt River dollar
- Jamaican dollar
- Kenyan shilling
- Kiribati dollar
- Liberian dollar
- Maltese pound
- Mauritian rupee
- Namibian dollar
- New Zealand dollar
- Pitcairn Islands dollar
- South African rand
- Seychelles rupee
- Singaporean dollar
- Sierra Leone leone
- Solomon Islands dollar
- Somaliland shilling
- Sri Lankan rupee
- Surinam dollar
- Swaziland lilangeni
- New Taiwan dollar
- Tanzanian shilling
- Trinidad and Tobago dollar
- Tuvaluan dollar
- Ugandan shilling
- United States dollar
- Zimbabwean dollar
The following obsolete currencies have also had a subdivision named the cent. In all cases, the cent was 1/100 of the primary unit.
- British Caribbean Territories (Eastern Group) dollar
- British Guiana dollar
- British Honduras dollar
- British North Borneo dollar
- Chatham Islands dollar
- Cingalese rupee
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands rupee
- East African and Ugandan rupee
- East African florin
- East African shilling
- Malayan dollar
- Malayan and British Borneo dollar
- Mauritian dollar
- New Brunswick dollar
- Newfoundland dollar
- Nova Scotian dollar
- Penang dollar
- Prince Edward Island dollar
- Rhodesian dollar
- Sarawak dollar
- Sealand dollar
- Sierra Leoneian dollar
- Straits Settlements dollar
- Zanzibari rupee
In other languages
Currencies used primarily in non-English-speaking countries often have similar names derived from centum; these include the French centime and the centavo, used in several Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, and the cêntimo in Portugal.
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