Cent (unit of currency)
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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
- Bermudian Dollar
- Bruneian Dollar
- Canadian Dollar
- Cayman Islands Dollar
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands Dollar
- Cook Islands Dollar
- Cypriot Pound
- East Caribbean States Dollar
- European Union Euro (adopted by 13 of the EU member nations)
- Fijian Dollar
- Guyanese Dollar
- Principality of Hutt River Dollar
- Jamaican Dollar
- Kenyan Shilling
- Kiribati Dollar
- Sierra Leone Leone
- Swaziland Lilangeni
- Maltese Pound
- Mauritian Rupee
- Namibian Dollar
- New Zealand Dollar
- Pitcairn Islands Dollar
- South African Rand
- Seychelles Rupee
- Singaporean Dollar
- Solomon Islands Dollar
- Somaliland Shilling
- Sri Lankan Rupee
- 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 Latin-American countries.