Centime

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Centime \Cen`time"\, n. [F., fr. L. centesimus. See
     {Centesimal}.] (F. Coinage)
     The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and
     money of account.
     [1913 Webster] Centimeter



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  centime
       n 1: a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and
            Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and
            Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and
            the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and
            Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo
       2: a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
          [syn: {penny}, {cent}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CENTIME. The name of a French money; the one hundredth part of a franc.