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. Tom Whitmeyer:

   Liquid hydrogen is at a negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit( negative 268 degrees Celsius), liquid oxygen is negative 273( negative 169 degrees Celsius), so it's very cold substances, i used to participate in this back in the Shuttle Program and it's like watching a ballet. You've got pressure, volume and temperature. And you're really kind of working all those parameters to have a successful tanking operation.

2. Patty Davis:

   Sparklers burn as hot as a blowtorch at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit( 1,093 degrees Celsius), and that's enough to burn some metals.

3. Michael Read:

   Basically they were stuck in the car for the 55 hours in 30-degree (Celsius – about 86 Fahrenheit) heat, nobody knows what they went through.

4. 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.

5. Lisanne Blauw:

   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, future research into the effects of global warming on our health status is therefore of great importance.