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centigrade
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centigrade \Cen"ti*grade\, a. [L. centum a hundred + gradus degree: cf. F. centigrade.] Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10[deg] centigrade (or 10[deg] C.).
Centigrade thermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between that and the point indicating the boiling state of water divided into one hundred degrees. It is called also the Celsius thermometer, from Anders Celsius, the originator of this scale.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a scale English) Having 100 divisions between two fixed points. 2 Celsius. n. A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Now, more commonly known as the Celsius scale.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Centigrade may refer to:
- Centigrade (angle), a French unit of plane angle and fraction of grad/gradian/gon
- Centigrade, a historical forerunner to the Celsius temperature scale
- Centigrade (film), a 2007 short film and thriller
- 1001° Centigrades album by French Zeuhl band Magma in 1971
- Centigrade 232, album and book by Robert Calvert, recorded in 1986, released in 2007
Centigrade is a 2007 thriller short film starring Colin Cunningham, Daniel Brodsky, and Bernhard Lachkovics about a man trapped in a trailer. It won Leo Awards and awards at Method Fest Independent Film Festival and Cinequest Film Festival. The producers are working to turn the short into a feature film.
Usage examples of "centigrade".
She explains the difference between rotting and composting, that the needs of humans and the needs of compost are similar: oxygen, water, air temperature that does not stray far from 37 degrees centigrade.
For once the windiest continent on earth offered nothing but a light breeze but it was close to minus 40 degrees centigrade and breathing hurt.
A solvent for this is tetrafluoromethane -- it stays liquid down to minus 130 degrees Centigrade.
One of the minor discomforts of life on the Moon is that really hot drinks are an impossibility water boils at about seventy degrees centigrade in the oxygen-rich, low-pressure atmosphere universally employed.
Temperatures today will reach five degrees centigrade, forty-one Fahrenheit, in most places, and the northeasterly wind will moderate slightly.
But since his externals were still reading over a thousand degrees centigrade, getting any coherent data on his location was quite impossible.
In this deep, cold cup the waters surrendered warmth, so much that the temperature at 1524 meters or 5000 feet was 2 degrees above Centigrade.
When we play the right stuff over the pure nickel inside a pressurized tank at exactly fifty degrees Centigrade, we get perfect nickel carbonyl, right?
He ices the abdominal cavities of the corpses to thirty-two degrees centigrade until he can get the body onto the perfusion machine.
In terms of absolute cold, it was nothing--a mere two degrees below zero on the centigrade scale.
The units in which the choice discrepancy is measured are arbitrary, just as the Fahrenheit and Centigrade scales of temperature are arbitrary, fust as the Centigrade scale finds it convenient to fix its zero point at the freezing point of water, we shall find it convenient to fix our zero at the point where the pull of sexual selection exactly balances the opposite pull of utilitarian selection.
Hugh noted with interest that the centigrade scale had survived two millennia-but no reason why not.
And taking down a centigrade thermometer, which hung upon the wall, he plunged it into the skillet.
A centigrade thermometer of Eigel, counting up to 150 degrees, which to me did not appear half enough—.
However, the temperature was not as yet much lower, and a centigrade thermometer, transported to Lincoln Island, would still have marked an average of ten to twelve degrees above zero.