Anyone interested should contact Scott Roberts on his e-mail gradus. |
Before being renamed to honour Anders Celsius in 1948, the unit was called centigrade, from the Latin centum, which means 100, and gradus, which means steps. |
Well, then get your gradus, and put your foot in that first step of the ladder. |
The most rational progress toward Parnassus was by a gradus, or step, they said. |
Except that gradus misses Kinbote and mortally wounds Shade. |
Other places on the hill could only be reached by flights of steps: Centum gradus, Gradus Monetae and Scalae Gemoniae. |