# centigrade

Pronunciation: US say "SEN-tuh-grayd" /ˈsɛntəˌɡɹeɪd/; UK say "SEN-ti-grayd" /ˈsɛntɪɡɹeɪd/

## Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Celsius temperature scale, on which water freezes at 0° and boils at 100°.
   - Simple: Measured on the temperature scale where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
   - _The forecast predicted a high of thirty-two degrees centigrade for the weekend._
   - _Her oven needed to reach two hundred degrees centigrade before baking._
3. Divided into one hundred parts between two fixed points.
   - Simple: Divided into one hundred equal parts between two fixed marks.
   - _Engineers favored a centigrade gauge for its simple hundredfold divisions._
   - _The ruler followed a centigrade pattern between the two end points._

## Noun

2. A temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0° and its boiling point is 100° at standard atmospheric pressure.
   - Simple: A temperature scale that puts water's freezing point at 0 degrees and its boiling point at 100 degrees.
   - _European recipes list oven temperatures in centigrade._
   - _The pilot read the outside air temperature in centigrade._
4. A system of angle measurement that divides a quadrant into 100 equal units called gradians, grads, or gons.
   - Simple: A scale for measuring angles where a right angle is divided into one hundred equal parts.
   - _Some continental surveying manuals express bearings in centigrade._
   - _The theodolite's outer ring was graduated in centigrade._

## Noun

5. A single degree on the centigrade temperature scale. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: A single degree of temperature on the centigrade scale.
   - _Each centigrade marked a small step on the old mercury thermometer._
   - _The reading rose by two centigrades through the afternoon._

## Origin

Formed from centi- ("hundred") combined with grade ("degree").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/centigrade (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).