Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Celsius.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts: often placed after the noun which it qualifies, like troy, avoirdupois, etc.
- Pertaining to the scale which is divided into a hundred degrees: as, a centigrade degree. Its abbreviation is C.: as, 35° C.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.
- adjective 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having 100
divisions between twofixed points . - adjective
Celsius . - noun A centigrade
temperature scale having thefreezing point ofwater defined as 0° and itsboiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Now known as theCelsius scale.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But I believe the French have, of late, given the preference to what they call the centigrade scale, in which the space between the freezing and the boiling point is divided into 100 degrees.
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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Months ago, I asked you why you would not post your temperatures alternatively in centigrade as well as fahrenheit out of respect for the fact that your weather site is in a country using that temperature measurement scale and you responded that your readers would find such measurements confusing and incomprehensible and, therefore, you would never do so.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
qroqqa commented on the word centigrade
Officially obsolete since 1948, when the CGPM (governing conference of the metric system) renamed the degree centigrade as the degree Celsius.
September 4, 2008