centigrade

Meanings

Adjective

• Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
• Celsius (since 1948).

Noun

• A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.
• A single degree on this scale.
• A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.

Origin

• centi- + grade