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centum

/sen-tuhm/US // ˈsɛn təm //UK // (ˈsɛntəm) //

厘米,分数,百分之百,分钱

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one hundred.

Examples

  • Where such cases occur, patients should be fully prepared for the worst As a rule, the mortality is from 40 to 70 per centum.

  • Twenty-five per centum of all women over 60 years of age are found to have gall-stones.

  • It does more: in 90 per centum of cases it will prevent successful infection with smallpox.

  • Coins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.

  • At least 70 per centum of the patients affected show a family history of insanity in some forms.