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.
Usage examples of "centigrade thermometer".
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.
The temperature climbed into the high twenties, and even those oldsters who hadn't managed to learn to convert to the centigrade thermometer knew it was hot.
A back-swimmer rowed delicately out of a green cloud of algae and snooped around a centigrade thermometer which was suspended in the water from a driftwood twig.
The temperature climbed into the high twenties, and even those oldsters who hadnt managed to learn to convert to the centigrade thermometer knew it was hot.