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Celsius vs Centipede - What's the difference?

celsius | centipede |

As adjectives the difference between celsius and centipede

is that celsius is (metric scale of temperature) while centipede is having a hundred feet.

As a noun centipede is

(lb).

celsius

Adjective

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  • (rfc-def) A metric scale of temperature, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0° and its boiling point as 100°, 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 1/273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.
  • Synonyms

    * centigrade (slightly old-fashioned)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the Celsius temperature scale.
  • Synonyms

    * centigrade (slightly old-fashioned ) * centesimal

    See also

    * degree Celsius * Fahrenheit * kelvin

    Anagrams

    * English eponyms ----

    centipede

    English

    (wikipedia centipede) (Chilopoda)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
  • * 1993 , Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin , page 29,
  • Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
  • * 2008 , Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch , page 58,
  • The existence of millipedes, centipedes , insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.
  • * 2011 , Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology , 2nd Edition, unnumbered page,
  • All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.

    Synonyms

    * (any species of class Chilopoda) chilopod

    See also

    * millipede * myriapod ----