CELSIUS

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• CELSIUS (noun)
  The noun CELSIUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CELSIUS used as a noun is very rare.

• CELSIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anders Celsius; Celsius

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

 Context examples 

The team determined that the membrane quickly heated to above the 70 degrees Celsius required to deteriorate the cell walls of E. coli bacteria.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One of those lines was the detection of tiny rock grains inferred to be the product of hydrothermal chemistry taking place at temperatures of at least 194 degrees Fahrenheit (90 degrees Celsius).

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

The amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius. 1 Kilocalorie = 4.185 kJ.

(Calorie, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

The electrolytes are all melted to a liquid by temperatures between 700 and 800 degrees Celsius.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

As water temperatures climb up to 30 degrees Celsius, the western Pacific Ocean is susceptible to fish migration.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

The white dwarf at the center of NGC 2440 is one of the hottest known, with a surface temperature of more than 360,000 degrees Fahrenheit (200,000 degrees Celsius).

(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)

According to Irwin, Suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit) atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium and methane would take its toll long before the smell.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

A value recorded by ISO for the calorie at 15 degrees Celsius is 4.1855 J.

(Calorie 15 Degrees Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

A value defined for the calorie at 20 degrees Celsius is 4.1819 J.

(Calorie 20 Degrees Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

Nitrogen in a liquid state, having been super-cooled to about -200 degrees Celsius.

(Liquid Nitrogen, NCI Thesaurus)