Degrees Celsius is spoken in English
Degree Celsius
Pronunciation: English [diˈɡri: ˈselsi:əs] Beauty [dɪˈɡri ˈsɛlsiəs]
Celsius
English [ˈselsiəs] Beauty [ˈselsiəs]
adj. Celsius
n. Degrees Celsius
n. (Sweden, Indonesia, Pakistan, India) Celsius (personal name)
example:
The thermometer shows the temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
The thermometer displays the Celsius temperature and the Fahrenheit temperature.
Night temperatures can drop below 15 degrees Celsius.
Nighttime temperatures may drop below 15 degrees Celsius.
It will be a mild night, around nine degrees Celsius.
The weather is mild in the evening, with temperatures of about nine degrees Celsius.
centigrade
英 [ˈsentɪɡreɪd] 美 [ˈsentɪɡreɪd]
adj. Celsius; percentile
n. Celsius temperature scale
... daytime temperatures of up to forty degrees centigrade.
... Daytime temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius.
This thermometer is calibrated by centigrade.
This thermometer is calibrated in hundredths Celsius.
Sometimes it is cold as 26 degrees below centigrade.
Sometimes it's cold to minus 26 degrees Celsius.
The boiling point of water is 100 degrees centigrade.
The boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius.
Related usage: For example
At 5°C, we can read it as five degrees centigrade or five degrees Celsius;
The temperature of our human body at 37°C can be read as thirty-seven degrees centigrade or thirty-seven degrees Celsius.
Representation of zero degrees: zero degrees centigrade, which is the idiom, degree as a countable noun, 1 degree without adding "S".
Expression of temperature below zero degrees: for example - 5 °C, generally we have two statements.
First, directly use minus, and then add the degree after it, so it can be said to be minus five degrees, often at this time we will omit the centigrade;
The second is to say the temperature in front, and then add low zero after it, so minus 5 degrees can be expressed as five degrees below zero, of course, you can also change zero to zero, five degrees below freezing.
Sometimes in colloquial language, degrees are often omitted and directly said to be alive below zero or five degrees below freezing, for example: it was cold that day, minus five degrees. It was rather cold that day, five below zero. However, the first one expressed in minus is more common and authentic.
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