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单词 centesm
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centesmn.

Forms: late Middle English centysme, 1600s centesme, 1700s–1800s centesm.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French centiesme; Latin centēsima.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French centiesme, centisme (French centième ) hundredth part (mid 14th cent.), use as noun of centiesme, centisme hundredth (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French), and (ii) its etymon classical Latin centēsima hundredth part, use as noun (short for pars centēsima ) of feminine of centēsimus hundredth < centum hundred (see centum n.2) + -ēsimus , extended form (after vīcēsimus ) of -simus , suffix used to form ordinal numerals. Compare millesm n.
Obsolete.
A hundredth part, esp. of a unit of measurement.
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1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccccxxvijv/1 The centysme of the goodes of the forsayd bysshop.
1635 H. Gellibrand Disc. Variation Magneticall Needle 2 The Horizon..divided into 360 parts, and each part subdivided into Centesmes or Millesmes.
1692 J. Moxon Epitome Whole Art of War ii. 51 The Numbers are Rhynland Rods, and Centesmes of a Rod of 12 Feet.
1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 343 The Betna Barometer also is graduated, according to English Measure, into Inches and Centesms.
1770 C. Hutton Treat. Mensuration 552 You may convert centesms into inches and parts, and the contrary, without the table, by the following rule.
1854 A. Duncan Pract. Surveyor's Guide 57 The 10ths and centesms which may happen in the operations..may be exactly measured.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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