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Celsius vs Utility - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between celsius and utility

is that celsius is alternative case form of Celsius while utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness.

As an adjective Celsius

is 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.

celsius

English

(wikipedia 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

    External links

    * Entry for "degree Celsius" in How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

    Anagrams

    * English eponyms ----

    utility

    English

    Noun

    (utilities)
  • The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
  • Something that is useful.
  • (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
  • (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
  • (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
    • I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
  • (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being useful) usefulness, * See also