degree celsius

1. 1.

   a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

   Synonymsdegree centigradeC

   Broaderdegree

   Narrowerstandard temperature

Questions about degree celsius

What does degree celsius mean?

degree celsius means "a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature".

What is another word for degree celsius?

Close synonyms include degree centigrade, C. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is degree celsius a common word?

degree celsius is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.