Home › Entities › unit_of_time › century

century

unit of time lasting 100 years
Intangible unit_of_time Q578
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

century is an unit of time[1]. century draws 4,456 Wikipedia views per month (unit of time category, ranking #13 of 82).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: multiple of an unit[3]
  • Measured physical quantity: duration[4]
  • Subclass of: time interval[5], hectad[6]
  • Part of: millennium[7]
  • Commons category: Centuries[8]
  • Has part(s): decade[9], year[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Centuries[11]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Topic has template: Q10734471[14]
  • Used by: by century[15]
  • Different from: Wiek[16], centennial[17]
  • Conversion to SI unit: 3,155,716,800[18]
  • Wikidata time precision: 7[19]
  • Exact match: https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/#time:unitCentury[20]

Why It Matters

century has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] century is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). century. Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/century
MLA “century.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 16 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/century.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_century_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{century}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/century}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-16}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): century — https://4ort.xyz/entity/century (retrieved 2026-10-16)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/century · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Wiek, centennial
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Different from: centennial, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  2. 11w ago · Circeus · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → by century
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Used by: by century"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Conversion to standard unit → —
    Harper's tag → century
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: century, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289918209|century (#289918209)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  4. 23w ago · Stuchalk · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Instance of → —
    Conversion to standard unit → —
    Part of → millennium
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Conversion to si unit: 3,155,716,800±43,200 second"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.