NOUN
- a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees
How To Use centigrade scale In A Sentence
- A step in temperature on the Fahrenheit scale is smaller than a step on the Centigrade scale.
- For the next 204 years, the scientific and thermometry communities world-wide referred to this scale as the ‘centigrade scale.’
- A step in temperature on the Fahrenheit scale is smaller than a step on the Centigrade scale.
- At first glance, it would appear that, with zero set at the freezing point of water at sea level and 100 at the boiling point, the centigrade scale is logical and obvious.
- But I believe the French have, of late, given the preference to what they call the centigrade scale, in which the space between the freezing and the boiling point is divided into 100 degrees. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
- He observes that, while the centigrade scale may be preferential for scientists working in laboratories, the Fahrenheit scale is more suitable for measuring air temperatures to which we are all subject.
