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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats