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centigrade
[ sen-ti-greyd ]
adjective
- divided into 100 degrees, as a scale.
- (initial capital letter) Celsius ( def 2 ). : cent. : C
centigrade
/ sĕn′tĭ-grād′ /
- See Celsius
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For every 50 degrees Centigrade, you change the chemical reaction rate by a factor of two.
A Calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from zero to one degree Centigrade.
A centigrade thermometer, sunk two and a half inches in the earth, at noon, marked 56.
I don't think I'd care to walk into a hydrogen atmosphere at three hundred Centigrade.
All I did was wait until the temperature got above three fifty-seven Centigrade—above the boiling point of mercury.
Slightly disappointed that there were only five degrees of frost (Centigrade) I returned to the lounge.
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