centigrade

1. not comparableHaving 100 divisions between two fixed points.

   Synonyms: centesimal

2. not comparableCelsius.

plural centigrades

1. uncountableusuallyA centigrade scale for temperature having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure.

   a temperature of 34 centigrade

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   All temperatures are expressed in centigrade unless otherwise noted.

   We may note in passing that none of the 'classic Marxist writers', from Engels to Stalin, who repeated this example observed that water does not have to reach a temperature of 100° centigrade to evaporate.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59

   Earth is one degree Centigrade hotter today than in pre-industrial times.

   2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

   Synonyms: Celsius scale

2. archaiccountableusuallyA single degree on this scale.

   a temperature of 34 centigrades

   Synonyms: degree Celsius, degree centigrade, mul:°C, mul:℃

3. countableusuallyThe scale for angle measurement on which a gradian (a grad or gon) is the hundredth part of a quadrant.