centigrade scale

1. 1.

   a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees

   SynonymsCelsius scaleinternational scale

   Broadertemperature scale

Questions about centigrade scale

What does centigrade scale mean?

centigrade scale means "a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees".

What is another word for centigrade scale?

Close synonyms include Celsius scale, international scale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is centigrade scale a common word?

centigrade scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.