deg
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A short form of degree used to measure angles or temperature
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- The angle of the triangle is exactly 90 deg.
Examples
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The recipe says to bake the cake at 180 deg Celsius for 30 minutes.
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He checked the weather and saw it was 25 deg outside.
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The angle measures 90 deg.
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Water freezes at 0 deg Celsius.
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The recipe says to bake the cake at 180 deg Celsius for 30 minutes.
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Water freezes at 0 deg Celsius.
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He checked the weather and saw it was 25 deg outside.
Synonyms
degree
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A unit for measuring temperature on scales like Celsius or Fahrenheit
is an abbreviation used as a symbol for both temperature and angle measurement
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A unit for measuring angles equal to one part of a circle divided into 360 equal parts
is an abbreviation used as a compact symbol for both angles and temperatures
Surface Forms
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Etymology
Deg is short for degree, a word from the Latin root gradus that means 'step'. Imagine a circle or a thermometer made of many tiny steps; each deg is one of those steps, so it measures angles or temperature.