centesimal
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Origin of centesimal
1675–85; < Latin centēsim ( us ) hundredth ( cent ( um ) 100 + -ēsimus ordinal suffix) + -al 1
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Measures of relationship between the digits on a centesimal scale 129 IX.
From Finger Prints by Galton, Francis, Sir
Ordinates to the six schemes of Distribution, being the ordinates drawn from the base of each schemeat selected centesimal divisions of the base.
From Finger Prints by Galton, Francis, Sir
The dip of the needle at the Silla was one centesimal degree less than in the town of Caracas.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
The patient received the remedy in doses of the 1st centesimal trituration, every evening and morning, as much as a point of a knife blade would hold.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
Its usefulness arises from its decimal or centesimal division, and the fact that 10 square chains make an acre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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