Associations to the word «Celsius»

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Wiktionary

CELSIUS, adjective. (Can we clean up([1]) this sense?) A metric temperature scale , originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0° and its boiling point as 100°, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01° C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1° C corresponds to 1/273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.
CELSIUS, adjective. Of the Celsius temperature scale.
CELSIUS, noun. Alternative letter-case form of Celsius

Dictionary definition

CELSIUS, noun. Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744).

Wise words

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