Celsiusnoun [ U ], adjective
uk/ˈsel.si.əs/us/ˈsel.si.əs/also centigrade, written abbreviation C(of) a measurement of temperature on a standard in which 0° is the temperature at which water freezes, and 100° the temperature at which it boils:
Are the temperatures given in Celsius or Fahrenheit?
The sample was heated to (a temperature of) 80°C.
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- The thermometer recorded a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius.
- In a strict sense, frost refers simply to a temperature of zero degrees Celsius or less.
- Preheat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius.
- How do you convert 70 degrees Fahrenheit into Celsius?
- They always use the Celsius scale on the weather forecast nowadays.
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Measurements of temperature
- absolute zero
- C, c
- centigrade
- dewpoint
- F, f
- Fahrenheit
- fifties
- forties
- K, k
- kelvin
- mark
- melting point
- nineties
- point
- seventies
- temperature
- thermo-
- thirties
- zero
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