They both measure the same thing (temperature!), but use different numbers: Boiling water (at normal pressure) measures 100Â° in Celsius, but 212Â° in Fahrenheit.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and place of a society's slave system. The motivations of slave owners in manumitting slaves were complex and varied.
(pÉr-sÅnâ²É-fÄ«â²) tr.v. perÂ·sonÂ·iÂ·fied, perÂ·sonÂ·iÂ·fyÂ·ing, perÂ·sonÂ·iÂ·fies. 1. To think of or represent (an inanimate object or abstraction) as having personality or the qualities, thoughts, or movements of a living being: To make history or psychology alive I personify it (AnaÃ¯s Nin). 2. To represent (an object or abstraction) by a human figure.