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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How to use Celsius in a sentence?

1. Francois Engelbrecht:

   Southern Namibia already has twice the global rate of warming. In northern Namibia it is a staggering 3.6 degrees Celsius per century.

2. 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.

3. Mary Ann Lucille Sering:

   The reports underscore just how much difference even half a degree of additional heat makes for people's lives, for working conditions and for the movement of people, how can we possibly subscribe to more than double current warming given what less than 1 degree Celsius has entailed?

4. Mieczyslaw Kaczmarczyk:

   Inside there are highly effective, catalytic gas burners which burn the gas superbly. Their unique feature is that the combustion of gas occurs at a very high temperature, about 800 degrees (Celsius). Therefore the gas burns completely, it burns very accurately, and harmful gases such as carbon monoxide or nitrogen oxides are not produced.

5. 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.