Cen"ti*grade (?), a. [L. centum a hundred + gradus degree: cf. F. centigrade.]
Consisting of a hundred
degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10°
centigrade (or
10° C.).
Centigrade thermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0
at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and
the distance between that and the point
indicating the boiling state of water divided into one hundred degrees. It is called also the Celsius thermometer, from
Anders Celsius, the originator of this scale.
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