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Celtium
- - The first proposed name for a supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. It is now considered identical to Lutetium. The proposed symbol was Ct (no period), but this name and symbol are no longer used.
Celtuce
- noun - leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked
- lettuce valued especially for its edible stems
Centage
- - Rate by the hundred; percentage.
Centals
- noun - a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
Centare
- noun - a centare is 1/100th of an are
Centaur
- noun - (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
- a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
Centavo
- noun - a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal
Centers
- noun - (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play; "it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback"
- (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff"
- (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that star
Centile
- noun - (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total