Celsius scale

British

noun

a scale of temperature in which 0° represents the melting point of ice and 100° represents the boiling point of water See also centigrade Compare Fahrenheit scale

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Changing unit names is not new. For example, the centigrade scale was renamed the Celsius scale.

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I refused to use anything but the Celsius scale when talking about the weather.

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