Celsius: difference between revisions

After {{named-after|en|nat=Swedish [[|occ=astronomer]] [[w:Anders Celsius|Anders Celsius]] (|wplink==|born=1701–|died=1744)}}, who first proposed the [[centigrade]] scale in 1742. The surname is Latinized from the estate's name, {{der|en|la|celsus||mound}}.

# ARelated to a [[metric]] [[scaletemperature]] of [[temperaturescale]], originally defined as having the [[freezing]] point]] of water as 0° degrees and its [[boiling]] point]] as 100° degrees, 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 {{frac|1/|273.16}} of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the [[absolute zero]].

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{{trans-top|related to a metric scale of temperature}}

*: MandarinCantonese: {{t|zhyue|攝氏|sctr=Hani}},sip3 {{t|zh|摄氏|tr=Shèshì|sc=Hanisi6}}

*: DutchHokkien: {{t|nan-hbl|nl攝氏|Celsiustr=Liap-sī}}

*: EsperantoMandarin: {{t-+|eocmn|Celsio攝氏|xstr=EsperantoShèshì}}

* Dutch: {{trreqt+|Finnishnl|Celsius}}

* [[Macedonian]]French: {{t+|mkfr|ЦелзиусCelsius|tr=Célziusm}}

* SwedishGerman: {{t+|svde|grader}}, {{t+Celsius|sv|Celsiusn}}

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