cental

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English

Etymology

From Latin centum (“a hundred”) +‎ -al, perhaps modeled after quintal.

Pronunciation

Noun

cental (plural centals)

  1. (historical) A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.
    Synonym: (Canada, US) hundredweight

Adjective

cental (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a hundred.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cental”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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