Celsius
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
After Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742.
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- IPA: /sɛlsiːəs/
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Celsius
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) A metric scale of temperature, 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.
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- centigrade (slightly old-fashioned)
[edit] Translations
metric scale of temperature
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[edit] Adjective
Celsius
- Of the Celsius temperature scale.
[edit] Synonyms
- centigrade (slightly old-fashioned)
- centesimal
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[edit] Finnish
[edit] Noun
Celsius
- The letter "C" in the Finnish tavausaakkoset, a spelling system similar to ICAO spelling alphabet.
- Alternative spelling of celsius.