Century

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

   “Holonyms: kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond”

2. isim A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

   “Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion”

3. isim A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
4. isim A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.

   “'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro and con.”

5. isim A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

   “He has scored 44 limited-overs centuries.”

6. isim A score of one hundred points.

   “That was his tenth professional century.”

7. isim A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
8. isim A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
9. özel isim A surname.