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centesimal

[ sen-tes-uh-muhl ]

adjective

  1. hundredth; pertaining to division into hundredths.


centesimal

/ ɛˈɛɪə /

noun

  1. hundredth
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. relating to division into hundredths
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٱ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ٱi·· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of centesimal1

1675–85; < Latin Գŧ ( us ) hundredth ( cent ( um ) 100 + -ŧܲ ordinal suffix) + -al 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of centesimal1

C17: from Latin Գŧus, from centum hundred
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Example Sentences

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The patient received the remedy in doses of the 1st centesimal trituration, every evening and morning, as much as a point of a knife blade would hold.

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Its usefulness arises from its decimal or centesimal division, and the fact that 10 square chains make an acre.

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In these and other ways, results were obtained, all testifying to the conspicuous effect of heredity, and giving results that can be measured on the centesimal scale already described.

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It is usually expressed in a centesimal scale, 0 being perfect dryness, and 100 complete saturation.

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From this preparation, which I used as the mother-tincture, I obtained attenuations up to the thirties centesimal scale.

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