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Celsius

Cel′si-us

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Noun.
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.

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Celsius

Celsius

See also: celsius and célsius

English

Adjective

Celsius (not comparable)

  1. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) 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.

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Adjective

Celsius (not comparable)

  1. Of the Celsius temperature scale.

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Finnish

Noun

Celsius

  1. The letter "C" in the Finnish tavausaakkoset, a spelling system similar to ICAO spelling alphabet.
  2. Alternative spelling of celsius

celsius

celsius

See also: Celsius and célsius

English

Noun

celsius (plural celsius)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Celsius
    • 2009, January 13, “AAP”, in Enviro-friendly fridges:
      Fridges switch themselves on and off regularly as they keep their temperature between 2 and 4 degrees celsius.

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Finnish

Noun

celsius

  1. Alternative capitalization of Celsius (letter "C" in the Finnish standard spelling alphabet).
  2. Celsius (scale of temperature).
    Lämpötila on 10 astetta celsiusta.
    The temperature is 10 degrees Celsius.

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Inflection of celsius (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative celsius celsiukset
genitive celsiuksen celsiusten
celsiuksien
partitive celsiusta celsiuksia
illative celsiukseen celsiuksiin
singular plural
nominative celsius celsiukset
accusative nom. celsius celsiukset
gen. celsiuksen
genitive celsiuksen celsiusten
celsiuksien
partitive celsiusta celsiuksia
inessive celsiuksessa celsiuksissa
elative celsiuksesta celsiuksista
illative celsiukseen celsiuksiin
adessive celsiuksella celsiuksilla
ablative celsiukselta celsiuksilta
allative celsiukselle celsiuksille
essive celsiuksena celsiuksina
translative celsiukseksi celsiuksiksi
instructive celsiuksin
abessive celsiuksetta celsiuksitta
comitative celsiuksineen

Latin

Adjective

celsius

  1. nominative neuter singular of celsior
  2. accusative neuter singular of celsior
  3. vocative neuter singular of celsior