Celsius
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- noun
- /ˈsɛlsiəs/
:
grado Celsius
- Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius, making this scale useful in cooking.
- Celsius temperature
- 28 Celsius
- degrees Celsius
They like to use science, like to use Celsius.
- They like to use science, like to use Celsius.
- And we apply the function right here, the one that we created, the name that we gave to our function, Celsius to Kelvin.
- I do want to say something Fahrenheit in Celsius if there's going to be two, right?
Examples
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In a steak or chop, the rate of central temperature increase can exceed 10 degrees Celsius per minute.
Academic text (1999) -
Generally, each increase of 1 Celsius in skin temperature results in approximately a 10 percent increase in tissue metabolic requirements (6).
Academic text (1999) -
Outside temperature's 18 degrees celsius.
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The lowest temperature for gasoline is -40 Celsius (-40 F).
Blog text (5) -
It is in the single digits today in Celsius, which is winter's coming.
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There is an important recognition that warming of the globe more than two degrees Celsius above pre industrial is dangerous and should be avoided.
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The temperature was at least twenty-five degrees Celsius warmer than the tunnels.
Fiction book (1992) -
So the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit is shrinking as you get colder.
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Thermal scans by the geological survey show ground temps are up three degrees celsius in the past two years.
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The temperature is currently 20 degrees Celsius outside, which feels quite pleasant.
Synonyms
A temperature scale where 0 degrees is water's freezing and 100 degrees its boiling
A way to measure temperature where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees
Compounds
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A unit for measuring temperature on the Celsius scale where water freezes at 0 and boils at 100
A temperature scale where 0 degrees is water's freezing and 100 degrees its boiling
Surface Forms
Etymology
Celsius is named after Anders Celsius, and his family name comes from the Latin celsus meaning 'high'. So the Celsius scale measures how 'high' or 'low' the temperature is, with water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100.