Definition of "centigrade" [cen•ti•grade]

• Celsius. See Table at measurement. (adjective)

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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."
• "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."
• "And since then, we actually have a temperature increase during the winter months of about 4.5 degrees centigrade, which is a very large temperature increase."