cents
SENTS/sɛnts/
- 1Plural of cent.
The price rose by twelve cents overnight.
He dropped a handful of cents into the donation jar.
Note
A regular -s plural that does the counting for every meaning of cent. With money it can count value (twelve cents) or the coins themselves (a jar full of cents). Musicians use it for fine differences in pitch, each cent a hundredth of a semitone. Reactor physicists use it for reactivity, where a hundred cents make one dollar. With one, the singular returns: one cent, never one cents.
cents is a form of cent
cent, noun: A unit of money equal to one hundredth of the main currency unit in many countries, including the euro; in dollars, symbol ¢. Full entry
- Forms
- cent also pluralcents plural
- Spelling
- cent → cents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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