What's the difference between centigrade and fahrenheit?
Centigrade
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10¡ centigrade (or 10¡ C.).
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean annual temperatures in the survey ranged from -7 degrees Centigrade (19 degrees Fahrenheit) in Alaska to 26 degrees Centigrade (79 degrees Fahrenheit) in Puerto Rico.
(2) Two of the E. hafniae plasmids were found unstable when harboured in Salmonella typhi grown at 40 degrees centigrade, when they were stable in the same strain grown at 37 degrees.
(3) Ten minutes after application of the histamine solution, the temperature increased by a mean of about 3 degrees centigrade.
(4) The extraction procedure is as follows: washed bacterial cells are suspended in 0,15 M NaCl and heated at 60 degrees centigrade for 1 hr; after centrifugation, the supernatant fluid is precipitated with one and five volumes of ethanol.
(5) Maternal temperature was raised to between 41 and 42 degrees Centigrade (C.), by applying external heat.
(6) The duration of cooling perfusion was, on an average, 20 min., and the patients were cooled to a temperature of 23-21 centigrades.
(7) The effect of temperature was most pronounced in the low temperature range, and change in conduction velocity per degree centigrade was reduced toward higher skin temperature.
(8) The finger systolic pressure of 25 healthy subjects and 23 hypertensives was studied by plethysmography at 30 degrees, 15 degrees and 10 degrees centigrade.
(9) After the weight in kilograms (BUTT) and internal temperature in degrees centigrade (TEMP) were recorded, each butt was measured for resistance (Rs, ohms), reactance (Xc, ohms), and distance (L, centimeters) between detector terminals four different ways: parallel or perpendicular to the top of the carcass and on either lean surface or fat surface of the cut.
(10) Although the range of rise in temperature was wide, from 3 to 17 degrees centigrade, the highest temperature obtained was 48 degrees centigrade, which is well below the denaturation point (56 degrees centigrade) of proteins.
(11) Fungi, mainly, moulds grew better at a temperature of 20 centigrade.
(12) The oats had been left overnight at about 2.5 centigrade and were served to 58 children at 7.45 in the morning.
(13) PtcO2 data were obtained by the KONTRON 5300 Monitor, its electrode heated to 44 centigrades.
(14) Whether or not Alaska proves to be the "canary in the cage" – the geological shenanigans there heralding far worse to come – depends largely upon the degree to which we are successful in reducing the ballooning greenhouse gas burden arising from our civilisation's increasingly polluting activities, thereby keeping rising global temperatures to a couple of degrees centigrade at most.
(15) The mean corpuscular volume (MCV) of blood after storage for up to 24 days under various temperature conditions in ethylene diamine tetracetic acid, acid citrate dextrose, citrate phosphate dextrose, and Alsever's solution was measured using the Coulter S. Storage of blood overnight at 23 degrees centigrade increased the MCV, while there was no significant change after similar storage at 4 degrees C. Storage of blood for 23 days at 4 degrees C for 24 days.
(16) The stock solution is stable more than 7 weeks when stored at -34 degrees Centigrade in glass vessels; the standard solutions should be prepared for each working day.
(17) Many parts of southern Europe could face desertification if global average temperature rises by significantly more than 2 centigrade degrees.” Heavier precipitation and flooding is projected in northern and north-eastern Europe, with a heightened risk of coastal flooding and erosion.
(18) The results were read at 490nm after incubation with substrates at 37 degree centigrade.
(20) The state has a subtropical climate with 4 marked seasons in which the temperature ranges from 14 degrees Centigrade to 24 degrees Centigrade.
Fahrenheit
Definition:
(a.) Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.
(n.) The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean annual temperatures in the survey ranged from -7 degrees Centigrade (19 degrees Fahrenheit) in Alaska to 26 degrees Centigrade (79 degrees Fahrenheit) in Puerto Rico.
(2) • This article was amended on 23 November 2015to correct the conversion of temperature changes from celsius to fahrenheit
(3) She was subsequently offered leads in several films, including Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, only for Hitchcock's people to inform them she wasn't available.
(4) Specifically, ambient temperature was directly associated with the frequency of collective violence through the mid-80s (degrees Fahrenheit).
(5) 10.14pm GMT A final round up of the weather in the mid-west from AP – which describes the forecast as "extreme": 32 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-35 Celsius) in North Dakota, and 15 below zero (-26 Celsius) in Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Chicago.
(6) Local miners descend to depths of up to 1,300 metres and often work in temperatures pushing 100 degrees fahrenheit.
(7) The report notes that New York could face average annual temperature rises of up to 5 degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of this century and by as much as 9 degrees by 2080.
(8) While it is the coldest city in North America, Yellowknife is not technically the coldest in the world – though residents will point out that you have to factor in the Wind Chill Index (35.74 + 0.6215T - 35.75[V 0.16 ] + 0.4275T[V 0.16 ], in which V is the wind speed in mph and T is the temperature in fahrenheit).
(9) With each degree of increase in temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit), from 101 degrees F (38.3 degrees C) to greater than or equal to 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C), the risk of recurrence at one year declined, from 35 percent to 30, 26, 20, and 13 percent (P for trend = 0.024).
(10) At the height of the cold, wind chills may reach 50, 60 or even 70 below zero in fahrenheit (-45.5, 51 or even 56.7C).
(11) Physical examination revealed a normally placed urethral meatus calibrated at 21 degrees Fahrenheit.
(12) Compared to the 1981 to 2010 average, air temperatures at the 925 hPa level have been -0.5 to -2.0 degrees Celsius (-0.9 to -3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) below average over central Greenland, north of Greenland and towards the pole, and over the Canadian Archipelago.
(13) Air temperatures at the 925 hPa level were 1 to 3 degrees Celsius (2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average over much of the Arctic Ocean the first part of the month, in stark contrast to most of the summer when cooler temperatures dominated.
(14) Those forecast global temperatures rising between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4-6.4 Celsius) by the end of the century with the best estimate at 7.5 degrees (4 Celsius).
(15) As body temperature increased from 38 to 42 degrees Centigrade (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit), there was a systematic decrease in latency for waves III and V. An overall hyperthermia-related decrease in the wave I-V latency interval of 0.5 to 0.6 milliseconds was observed on two test dates.
(16) An average temperature increase of one degree Fahrenheit was associated with a more than 2 per cent decline in deaths from pneumonia and influenza.
(17) Temperatures ranged from 26 degrees fahrenheit below zero (minus 32C) in Walden to 13F above (minus 11C) in Cortez, with several communities on the Eastern Plains warming up to 10F (minus 12C).
(18) The report says if the world continues to spew greenhouse gases at its accelerating rate, it’s likely that by mid-century temperatures will increase by about another 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) compared to temperatures from 1986 to 2005.
(19) Typically an inverse approximately linear pattern of coronary heart disease (CHD) and of stroke mortality with temperature was seen over the greater part of the temperature range, with mortality reaching a low for days with average Fahrenheit temperatures in the 60's and 70's (15.6-26.6 C), and then rising sharply at higher temperatures.
(20) Last year's temperatures smashed through 118 years of temperature records, registering a full degree Fahrenheit hotter than the previous record.