- a combining form meaning “hundredth” or “hundred,” used in the formation of compound words: centiliter; centimeter; centipede.
prefix
- denoting one hundredthcentimetre Symbol: c
- rare denoting a hundredcentipede
word-forming element meaning “one hundred” or “one hundredth part,” used in English from c.1800, from the French metric system, from Latin centi-, comb. form of centum “one hundred” (see hundred).
pref.
- One-hundredth part (10-2):centiliter.
- One hundred (102):centigrade.
- A prefix meaning a hundredth, as in centigram, a hundredth of a gram.