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ˈsɛl si əscel·sius

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Celsius, Anders Celsiusnoun

    Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)

Wiktionary

  1. Celsiusadjective

    Of the Celsius temperature scale.

  2. Celsiusadjective

    Related to 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.

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    Celsius is a unit of measurement used for temperature, based on the freezing point of water at 0 degrees and the boiling point at 100 degrees under normal atmospheric conditions. It is a part of the metric system and commonly used across the globe outside the United States.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Celsiusnoun

    the Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Celsius

    a distinguished Swedish astronomer, born at Upsala, and professor of Astronomy there; inventor of the Centigrade thermometer (1701-1744).

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Celsius in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Celsius in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Celsius in a Sentence

  1. Francois Engelbrecht:

    Southern Namibia already has twice the global rate of warming. In northern Namibia it is a staggering 3.6 degrees Celsius per century.

  2. Philip Jennings:

    Imagine working in a shoe manufacturer in Vietnam or a clothing factory in Bangladesh when it is 35 degrees Celsius, governments and employers have to take this issue of the cauldron of a warming planet seriously and develop some effective policy responses and practical measures to protect workers.

  3. Rob DeConto:

    We don't know exactly where it is, i'd like to hope that we're wrong and it's somewhere well above 3 degrees( Celsius).

  4. Christiana Figueres:

    The good news of all those climate change plans is that they actually do cut into the business-as-usual projection of greenhouse gas emissions as well as temperature, we are no longer heading to a world that would increase temperatures by 4, 5 or sometimes even 6 degrees( Celsius) according to some studies, which is what we had a few years ago. But, rather, with full implementation of these climate change plans, we could be heading to a future that would increase the global temperature by 2.7 or 3 degrees.

  5. The Australian:

    If you practice Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, you could be pretty tired with how hot it was, it was in the mid to high 90s( 35 Celsius). You can get pretty drained pretty quickly.

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