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centiday

Noun

Meaning

centiday (plural centidays)

One hundredth of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Another unit for time, more familiar than some other suggestions, could be 14.4 minutes, i.e. a shorter quarter of an hour, or a centiday, as proposed by Lagrange. Source: Internet

In the 19th century, Joseph Charles François de Rey-Pailhade proposed using the centiday, abbreviated cé, divided into 10 decicés, 100 centicés, 1000 millicés. Source: Internet

The centiday has been used in China (called ke in Chinese ) for thousands of years. Source: Internet

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