Nautical Term: CST
Definition of CST
Centistoke (Cts) is a temperature measurement unit commonly used in maritime navigation and engineering. One centistoke is equivalent to a change in temperature of one-hundredth of a degree Celsius.
For instance, if the temperature of a ship’s oil changes from 50 degrees Celsius to 51 degrees Celsius, this temperature change would amount to 100 centistokes (Cts).
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