Perfect7 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Are Celsius and Centigrade just two words for the same measurement, or is there a difference between the two? I could look it up, but I figured someone here would know - and then others could learn, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 There is a slight difference, which is too technical for me to go into here, but I was taught to use Centigrade in school as a child, although we measured temperature in Fahrenheit in those days. I believe it was renamed Celsius after a Swedish scientist sometime in the 1940s, but they are essentially the same. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reficul Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 As mentioned by Silva, there is a slight difference between the two; 0.01 degrees, to be exact. The Centigrade (the word literally means 100 gradients) revolves around the freezing point whereas the Celsius scale is based on the triple point of water to measure zero degrees. The triple point of water is the state when water exists as a liquid, gas and solid at once. The change from Centigrade to Celsius was made for accuracy and standardisation purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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