centigrade

  1. Adjective.  (context, of a scale) Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
  2. Adjective.  Celsius.
  3. Noun.  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 known as the Celsius scale.

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