Celsius

See also: celsius

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

After Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛlsiːəs/

Adjective

Celsius (not comparable)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• centigrade (slightly old-fashioned)

Translations

metric scale of temperature

• Arabic: سيلزيوس m (siilzyus), سلسيوس m (salsyus)
• Belarusian: Цэльсій m (Cél’sij)
• Bulgarian: Целзий m (Célzij)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝氏, 摄氏 (zh) (Shèshì)

• Dutch: Celsius (nl)
• Esperanto: Celsio
• Finnish: celsius
• French: Celsius (fr) m
• German: Celsius (de) m
• Hebrew: צלסיוס (tselsius)
• Japanese: 摂氏 (ja) (せっし, Sesshi), セルシウス (Serushiusu)

• Korean: 섭씨 (ko) (Seopssi) (攝氏 (ko)), 셀시우스 (Selsiuseu)
• Macedonian: Целзиус (Célzius)
• Malay: Celsius
• Portuguese: célsius, centígrado (pt)
• Russian: Цельсий (ru) m (Cél’sij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Целзијус m

  Roman: Celzijus m

• Spanish: Celsius
• Swedish: grader (sv), Celsius (sv)
• Ukrainian: Цельсій m (Cél’sij)
• Vietnamese: (độ) bách phân

Adjective

Celsius (not comparable)

1. Of the Celsius temperature scale.

Synonyms

• centigrade (slightly old-fashioned)
• centesimal

Translations

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Translations to be checked

• Russian: ^{(please verify)} Цельсий (Celʹsij) (Tsél’sij)

• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} thuộc về độ bách phân

See also

• degree Celsius
• Fahrenheit
• kelvin

External links

• Entry for "degree Celsius" in How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Anagrams

• sluices

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Finnish

Noun

Celsius

1. The letter "C" in the Finnish tavausaakkoset, a spelling system similar to ICAO spelling alphabet.
2. Alternative spelling of celsius