Celsius is the temperature scale where water freezes at zero. Twenty degrees Celsius, in Celsius, convert to Celsius.
It is named after the Swedish astronomer who proposed it, though he set it the other way up with zero at boiling. Almost every country uses it, and the older name centigrade was formally dropped in 1948.
1nouncelsiusThe temperature scale where water freezes at zero.
“The temperature dropped to minus ten degrees Celsius overnight.”
celsius is a scale.
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Celsius Borrowed from Swedish Celsius, from Latin celsus. named after Anders Celsius, who first proposed the centigrade scale in 1742. The surname is Latinized from the estate's name, Latin celsus (“mound”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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