cent

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You now make a half cent every time the price moves up or down one cent.

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Abbreviation of center. [The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.]

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noun

Abbreviation of center. [The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.]

noun

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

noun

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cent.

noun

Abbreviation of center. [The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.]

See also: penny, centime

noun

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

See also: penny, centime

noun

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.

See also: penny, centime

noun

(money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).

See also: penny, centime

Example sentences

You now make a half cent every time the price moves up or down one cent.

Buy one stock per cent if the stock price moves down one cent and sell one stock if it moves up once cent.

And if you can't, very few people will be wililng to pay even one cent, because of the huge perceptual gap between zero and one cent.

So running a lamp for an hour is about 1.5 cent.

Yeah, the first linked article mentions the 2 - 4 cent range in one of the last paragraphs.

They might be able to save less than a cent for every dollar users lose because of this feature.

We moved prices for the app up and down from 99-cent endings to see what would happen.

This was closely followed by Manchester, where there was a 28 per cent premium for female drivers.

And the price (not taking into account retrieval costs, etc...) of 1 cent per gigagbyte-month is the same as Glacier's.

I refuse to pay an incumbent one more cent for the privilege of enabling their anachronistic product model.

If the company has problems making payroll on time, there's a good chance they'll go out of business before your equity becomes worth a cent.

EX: Hold one stock for every cent in the current price.

Quote examples

The ten-cent 1/8" jack on your $600 device wasn't exactly readily accessible for DIY repair, so people would put the D8 inside a box with panel mount jacks, and run a jumper from the internal to external jacks.

So, if Jobs' complaint was that there are these other companies that weren't paying a cent, and could play music anyway (including on Jobs' devices), that would "inhibit a deal" because it wouldn't be rational for Apple to pay either.

"...announced a line of GaN transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars, and consumer devices by 10 to 20 per cent worldwide by 2025."

If people are to be expected to put up with turning on a computer to read a screen, they must be rewarded with deep and extremely up-to-date information that they can explore at will." Incredible how far we've come from "put up with turning on a computer." "But within a year the mechanisms will be in place that allow content providers to charge just a cent or a few cents for information.