DEGREE CELSIUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does degree Celsius mean? 

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

1. a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEGREE CELSIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

C; degree Celsius; degree centigrade

Hypernyms ("degree Celsius" is a kind of...):

degree (a unit of temperature on a specified scale)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "degree Celsius"):

standard temperature (exactly zero degrees centigrade)

 Context examples 

One degree Celsius represents the same temperature difference as one Kelvin.

(Degree Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius.

(Calorie per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)

In this scale a degree Fahrenheit is 5/9ths of a Kelvin (or of a degree Celsius), and minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It is also rocked by “violent weather systems, catastrophic storms" and high temperatures reaching 2,500 degree Celsius.

(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)

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)

One degree Fahrenheit is 5/9ths of a kelvin (or of a degree Celsius), and minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus)

The temperature scale defined by the values 0 degree Celsius for the freezing point of water and 100 degrees Celsius for the boiling point of water.

(Celsius Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

The water was only 1 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5 to 1 degree Celsius) warmer than usual water temperatures in the area, but it increased the glaciers' flow speeds by up to 25 percent and multiplied the rate of glacial ice loss by three to five times — from 7 to 10 feet of thinning per year (2 to 3 meters) up to 33 feet per year (10 meters).

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

Based on the new model, the researchers predict that an increase of 1 degree Celsius in seawater temperature, relative to the year 2000, would lead to a 32% increase in methylmercury levels in cod and a 70% increase in spiny dogfish.

(Mercury levels in fish are on the rise, National Science Foundation)