celsius

/sˈɛlsɪəs/

/ˈsɛɫsiəs/

Celsius

Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)

celsius

of or relating to the usage of a scale for measuring temperature in which water freezes at 0 degree and boils at 100 degrees

Examples

1. The temperature outside is nineteen degrees Celsius.

2. The temperature dropped to minus eighty degrees Celsius in Antarctica.

3. The thermometer showed a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius.

4. The temperature is expected to be in the neighborhood of 30 degrees Celsius today.