Century

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

• Example(s):
  • The 19^th century from 1801 to 1900.
  • The 20^th century from 1901 to 2000.
  • The current century 21^st from 2001 to present.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Decade.
  • A Millennium.
  • A Year.
• See: Time Duration Scale, Gregorian Calendar.

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References

2017a

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century
  • A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred ; abbreviated c.) 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.

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