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Definition of Centigrade scale
1. Noun. A temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees.
Medical Definition of Centigrade scale
1. A thermometer scale in which there are 100 degrees between the freezing point of water (assigned the value of 0.0°C) and the boiling point of water at sea level; technically, supplanted by the Celsius scale. Compare: Celsius scale. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centigrade Scale
Literary usage of Centigrade scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1883)
"Besides the centigrade scale two others are frequently used—Fahren hcii 's ...
points are the same as on the centigrade scale, but the distance between them ..."
2. Practical physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle (1922)
"Thermometers graduated on the centigrade scale are used almost ... For this reason
it is sometimes called the Celsius instead of the centigrade scale. ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Most Recent Discoveries and by Robert Kane (1851)
"The centigrade scale is of such extensive use in the works of most ... being to
the centigrade scale as 4 to 5, similar reductions are made to and from it, ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"Fahrenheit's is, therefore, reduced to the centigrade scale, by multiplying by
five, and dividing by nine, or to that of Reaumur, by multiplying by four ..."
5. Heat and Thermodynamics by Francis M. Hartmann (1911)
"Let it be desired to convert the temperature 0 on the centigrade scale to the
... Therefore, to convert a temperature on the centigrade scale to the ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"In the Fahrenheit scale, the melting point of ice is marked 32° and the boiling
point of water 212°; in the centigrade scale, the melting point of ice is ..."
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