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. Anthony Solomon:

   They faced tribal warfare and rogue villagers in Papua New Guinea who spread a rumor that the teams were vampires, they worked in Ethiopia's Afar region, one of the most hostile territories in the world in which to conduct community-based research, amid sandstorms, temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius and deadly venomous spiders.

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 Mann:

   So much depends on what we choose to do, if we keep planetary warming below 1.5 Celsius, which is still possible given concerted climate action, we can keep climate change impacts within our adaptive capacity. If we don't, we will likely exceed it.

4. Geoffrey Supran:

   That allows us for the first time to put a number on what Exxon knew, namely that fossil fuel burning was going to hit the planet by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade.

5. Rob DeConto:

   We don't know exactly where it is, i'd like to hope that we're wrong and it's somewhere well above 3 degrees( Celsius).