Century

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A Century is a Time Duration Unit of a time interval of 100 years.



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2017a

  • (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century
    • A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred ; abbreviated c.[1]) is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. For example, "the 17th century" refers to the years from 1601 to 1700.

      A centenary is a hundredth anniversary or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier. Its adjectival form is centennial.

2017b

  • (Dictinary.com, 2017) ⇒ century. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved May 14, 2017 from Dictionary.com website http://www.dictionary.com/browse/century
    • noun, plural centuries.
      • 1. a period of 100 years.
      • 2. one of the successive periods of 100 years reckoned forward or backward from a recognized chronological epoch, especially from the assumed date of the birth of Jesus.
      • 3. any group or collection of 100: a century of limericks.