WordNet
degree Centigrade
n. a degree on the Centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree Celsius, C]
Usage examples of "degree centigrade".
The Benguela's 12-degree Centigrade waters had given way to the 20-degree temperatures of the eastern portion of the South Equatorial.
Its 25-degree axial tilt gave it extreme seasonal variations, that ranged from its frozen polar caps to a hot 40-degree Centigrade at the equator.
There'd been a freak power failure and the special tank she was in had lost its chill and the body had been at about a degree Centigrade for a couple of hours when they discovered it.
I knew for instance that the average human can live less than an hour in water of one degree centigrade.
I didn't take time to goggle at the spectacle of a three-hundred-degree centigrade murderer.