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Centigrade vs Fahrenheit - What's the difference?

centigrade | fahrenheit |

As an adjective centigrade

is (of a scale) having 100 divisions between two fixed points.

As a noun centigrade

is a centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure now, more commonly known as the celsius scale.

centigrade

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (of a scale) Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
  • Celsius.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Now, more commonly known as the Celsius scale.

    • See also

    * milligrade ----

    fahrenheit

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia Fahrenheit) (-)
  • Describing a temperature scale originally defined as having 0 °F as the lowest temperature obtainable with a mixture of ice and salt, and 96 °F as the temperature of the human body, and now defined with 32 °F equal to 0 °C, and each degree Fahrenheit equal to 5/9 of a degree Celsius or 5/9 kelvin.