[
UK
/sˈɛntɪɡɹˌeɪd/
]
[ US /ˈsɛntəˌɡɹeɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛntəˌɡɹeɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees
How To Use centigrade In A Sentence
- The fish killed included bass, roach, eels and fluke when the temperature soared to twenty six degrees Centigrade.
- Temperatures inside the burning building are estimated to have reached 600 degrees centigrade.
- In summer, the temperature sometimes climbs up to forty degrees centigrade.
- The Jiading factory will be able to burn at 850 degrees centigrade, hot enough to destroy dioxin, a poisonous chemical compound found in some waste, said the engineer on that project.
- Day-time temperatures are frequently in the low twenties centigrade but, once night falls, they plummet to minus ten or even below that in a matter of minutes.
- The temperature was minus 10 degrees centigrade so we gathered around the campfire inside, talking, singing and getting to know each other.
- The temperature gauge was nudging 38 degrees centigrade at pitch level, that's nearly 100 in old money.
- 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. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
- The number at the bottom is the recommended water temperature in Centigrade.
- The authors wrote that ‘the trend in daily mean temperature due to land use changes is 0.35 degrees centigrade per century.’