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Definition of: centigrade
(sen′tə·grād) adjective
Graduated to a scale of a hundred. On the centigrade scale (now called the Celsius scale) the freezing point of water at normal atmospheric pressure is 0° and its boiling point 100°. The distance between those two points in the Fahrenheit and Réaumur is 180° and 80° respectively. See TEMPERATURE. [<F <L centum hundred + gradus step, degree]
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