Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
...daytime temperatures of up to forty degrees centigrade.
Centigrade is also a noun.
The number at the bottom is the recommended water temperature in Centigrade.
temperature
centigrade in British English
(ˈsɛntɪˌɡreɪd)
adjective
1. a former name for Celsius
noun
2.
a unit of angle equal to one hundredth of a grade
▶ USAGE Although still used in meteorology, centigrade, when indicating the Celsius scale of temperature, is now usually avoided becauseof its possible confusion with the hundredth part of a grade
centigrade in American English
(ˈsɛntəˌgreɪd)
adjective
1.
consisting of or divided into 100 degrees
2.
Celsius: the preferred term in English until the adoption of Celsius in 1948 by an international conference on weights and measures
abbrev. C
Word origin
Fr: see centi- & grade
Examples of 'centigrade' in a sentence
centigrade
By the time he arrived at the legation the sun had burnt off the mist and the temperature was already in the high twenties centigrade.
Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)
The higher altitudes brought cooler temperatures, about a drop of three degrees centigrade for each five hundred meters.