EGAVE

centigrade

About 0.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
  2. adjective Celsius. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. noun A centigrade scale for temperature having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure.
    All temperatures are expressed in centigrade unless otherwise noted.
  4. noun A single degree on this scale.
    a temperature of 34 centigrades
  5. noun The scale for angle measurement on which a gradian (a grad or gon) is the hundredth part of a quadrant.

Similar words

celsius c percentage centenary centifidous centesimal centuriate hundredal decadic hundredth

Often followed by

scale and thermometer degrees temperature to or degree is

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