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What dictionary is that? Im American and even here we learned hecto means 100 in 1st grade. Centi means 1/100th. (1) e.g. centifoot = 1/100th of a foot. (1)
by chillingeffect 3y ago
What dictionary is that? Im American and even here we learned hecto means 100 in 1st grade.
Centi means 1/100th. (1) e.g. centifoot = 1/100th of a foot.
(1) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/centi https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/centi
- cshimmin 3y agocentifoot... You had centimeter right there! "Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system" lol
- eredengrin 3y agoYeah would've made way more sense. Either that or centigrade.
- runlaszlorun 3y agocentipounds?
- smcnally 3y ago“American Football is a game of centiyards, not feet.” — Official Hand-egg rulebook
- brianfitz 3y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire
- HPsquared 3y agoReminds me of how financial newspapers often use a small "m" when describing millions of something. "$500m", or even worse "500m USD"... The engineer in me says that's 50 cents!
- chillingeffect 3y agoIn-depth discussion in this topic: https://xona.com/2006/12/17.html https://xona.com/2006/12/17.html
- lolinder 3y agoHecto- is the Greek root for 100, centi- is the Latin root for 100. The metric prefixes up to 1000 use Greek roots for the large prefixes (10^+n) and Latin for the small (10^-n), but there are also words that are derived directly from the respective Latin roots and therefore don't necessarily carry the metric system's fractional meaning. Someone already linked to the definition of centimillionaire, but here are a few more: * centipede (100 legs, not 1/100 of a leg) * centenarian (100 years old, not 1/100 of a year old) * millennium (1000 years, not 1/1000 of a year)