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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celsius \Cel"si*us\, n. 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, for Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744) inventor of the centigrade scale in 1742.
Wiktionary
a. (rfc-def) 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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Celsius is a small lunar crater that is located in the rugged terrain in the southern hemisphere on the Moon's near side. It lies less than one crater diameter to the south-southwest of the crater Zagut, and due north of Büsching.
This is a heavily worn crater with a southwest rim that has been damaged by multiple small crater impacts. There is a valley-like gap in the northern rim that joins Celsius with Celsius A. The interior floor of Celsius is almost featureless, except for a small craterlet in the northern half.
Celsius is a unit of temperature.
Celsius may also refer to:
- Celsius family, the Swedish family to which Anders Celsius, the inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, belongs
- Celsius (comics), a DC Comics superhero
- Celsius (crater), a lunar crater
- 4169 Celsius, an asteroid
- Celsius Mission, the flight of Swedish ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang to the International Space Station
- Celsius, a fictional airship in Final Fantasy X-2
- Celsius, a fictional spirit in Tales of Symphonia and other Tales games
- Fujitsu Celsius, a line of workstation computers made by Fujitsu
Celsius is the superhero alias of Arani Desai, a fictional character in the DC Comics series, Doom Patrol. She first appeared in Showcase #94 (September 1977), and was created by Paul Kupperberg and Joe Staton. She is among the very few superheroes of South Asian heritage, and may be the first ever such hero created by DC Comics.
Celsius, also known as centigrade, is a scale and unit of measurement for temperature. As an SI derived unit, it is used by most countries in the world. It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who developed a similar temperature scale. The degree Celsius (°C) can refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius scale as well as a unit to indicate a temperature interval, a difference between two temperatures or an uncertainty. Before being renamed to honour Anders Celsius in 1948, the unit was called centigrade, from the Latin centum, which means 100, and gradus, which means steps.
Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0° for the freezing point of water and 100° for the boiling point of water. This scale is widely taught in schools today, by international agreement the unit "degree Celsius" and the Celsius scale are currently defined by two different temperatures: absolute zero, and the triple point of VSMOW (specially purified water). This definition also precisely relates the Celsius scale to the kelvin scale, which defines the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature with symbol K. Absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible, is defined as being precisely 0 K and −273.15 °C. The temperature of the triple point of water is defined as precisely 273.16 K and 0.01 °C.
This definition fixes the magnitude of both the degree Celsius and the kelvin as precisely 1 part in 273.16 (approximately 0.00366) of the difference between absolute zero and the triple point of water. Thus, it sets the magnitude of one degree Celsius and that of one kelvin as exactly the same. Additionally, it establishes the difference between the two scales' null points as being precisely 273.15 degrees Celsius ( and ).
Usage examples of "celsius".
Brazil, with both water and air temperatures somewhere in the high twenties Celsius, very much like Rio had been in its spring.
If it had been in the high thirties Celsius well into the night, what must it be now?
It was gone in a moment, but suddenly the wind shifted direction and picked up considerably, and the temperature dropped from a tropical twenty-six degrees Celsius to perhaps no more than ten or twelve.
The air temperature felt almost chilly, although in fact it was twenty-six degrees Celsius or better.
At this point, all the water in the pot has reached at least 100 degrees Celsius, the boiling point of water at one atmosphere of pressure.
Drop the temperature by ten degrees Celsius, and you quadruple the cooking time.
The deterioration is exactly what I would predict from an increase of three degrees Celsius in storage facilities.
The final stages, from three degrees Celsius to normal body temperature, could not be rushed.
Despite the cooling breeze, it was hot -- 32 degrees Celsius -- and sweat slicked his skin within the ice suit.
And a 1200-degree Celsius autoclave for incinerating contaminated equipment and rotting specimens.
The Tyler machine was completely self-enclosed, used hot air, and could ramp from temperature to temperature, from 5 to over 100 degrees Celsius and back down again, in a few seconds.
The plans involve taking the last remaining vials--there are a couple of hundred--and inserting them in a 1200-degree Celsius incinerator.
You see, the surface of the Benguela Current is about 12 degrees Celsius just to the west of Cape Town.
Harvath alternated between staring at the temperature reading, which was now down to minus fifteen degrees Celsius, and staring out the windshield toward the far edge of the field.
He switched on the low-intensity interior lighting, adjusted the thermostat to 20 degrees Celsius and activated the sensor array.