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Centigrade
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Example Sentences
- Temperatures in the region routinely sink below zero degrees centigrade.
- The temperature for that stroll was minus-38 centigrade.
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World English Dictionary
| centigrade (ˈsɛntɪˌɡreɪd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | a former name for Celsius |
| —n | |
| 2. | a unit of angle equal to one hundredth of a grade |
| usage Although still used in meteorology, centigrade, when indicating the Celsius scale of temperature, is now usually avoided because of its possible confusion with the hundredth part of a grade | |
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Medical Dictionary
centigrade cen·ti·grade (sěn'tĭ-grād')
adj.
Celsius.
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Science Dictionary
centigrade  (sěn'tĭ-grād') Pronunciation Key
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. |
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