centigrade cen·ti·grade (sěn'tĭ-grād')
adj.
Celsius.
centigrade (sěn'tĭ-grād') See Celsius. Our Living Language : Because of confusion over the prefix centi-, which originally meant 100 but developed the meaning 1/100 , scientists agreed to stop using the term centigrade in 1948. The term Celsius is now standard. |