Synonyms for Celsius
ˈsɛl si əscel·sius

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1. Celsiusadjective

   Synonyms:
   centigrade, centesimal

2. Celsiusadjective

   A metric scale of temperature, 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.

   Synonyms:
   centesimal, centigrade

Princeton's WordNet

1. Celsius, Anders Celsiusnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "celsius":

   centigrade, percentage, fahrenheit

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1. Brian Kilmeade:

   Around 2030 is the date at which we have to get the world now on the right path in order to cap the level of warming at that level of 1.5 [degrees celsius].

2. Lisanne Blauw:

   We were surprised though by the magnitude of the effect size, we calculated that a 1-degree Celsius rise in environmental temperature could account for more than 100,000 new diabetes cases per year in the USA alone.

3. Gavin Schmidt:

   The last seven years have all been more than 1-degree Celsius above the 19th century -- and that's large enough on a planetary scale to start showing up much, much more clearly in local and regional and extreme events, the global warming is now large enough that it's an indicator of all those other things that we're already seeing. So, we're now seeing global warming quite locally in ways that, a decade ago or maybe 20 years ago, was still unclear.

4. Neylor Bastos:

   At the plant, we have a system that controls worker temperatures, all people are monitored and if anyone has a temperature over 37.5 Celsius (99.5 Fahrenheit), that person will go straight to the medical facility ... and then goes home.

5. Mark McCarthy:

   Looking back further into the UK's weather reveals a very interesting timeline with the top ten warmest years at the most recent end, since 2002, notably, 1892 is the coldest year in the series, when the average temperature was just over seven degrees. By contrast 2014, which was the warmest year in the series, saw an average temperature approaching 10 degrees Celsius.