Celsius, Anders Celsius(noun)
Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)
Celsius(adjective)A metric scale of temperature, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0\u00B0 and its boiling point as 100\u00B0, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01\u00B0\u00A0C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1\u00B0\u00A0C corresponds to 1/273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.
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