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centigrade

/sen-ti-greyd/US // ˈsɛn tɪˌgreɪd //UK // (ˈsɛntɪˌɡreɪd) //

摄氏度,摄氏,摄氏温度

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : divided into 100 degrees, as a scale.
    • : Celsius. Abbreviation: cent. Symbol: C

Examples

  • For every 50 degrees Centigrade, you change the chemical reaction rate by a factor of two.

  • A Calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from zero to one degree Centigrade.

  • A centigrade thermometer, sunk two and a half inches in the earth, at noon, marked 56.

  • I don't think I'd care to walk into a hydrogen atmosphere at three hundred Centigrade.

  • All I did was wait until the temperature got above three fifty-seven Centigrade—above the boiling point of mercury.

  • Slightly disappointed that there were only five degrees of frost (Centigrade) I returned to the lounge.