Centigrade

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Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundreddivisions or equal parts. Spesifically: of or pertaining thecentigrade thermometer; as, 10° centigrade (or 10° C.). Centigradethermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the pointindicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between thatand the point indicating the boiling state of water divided into onehundred degrees. It is called also the Celsius thermometer, fromAnders Celsius, the originator of this scale.