celsius

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: Cel=si=us

CIDE DICTIONARY

celsius, n. 

 The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

celsius, adj. of or denoting a temperature on the Celsius scale.

Idiom

Celsius scale a scale of temperature on which water freezes at 0° and boils at 100° under standard conditions.

Etymology

A. Celsius, Sw. astronomer d. 1744