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.
manumit. -Â·mitâ²ted, -Â·mitâ²ting. to free from slavery; emancipate (a slave, serf, etc.). Middle English manumitten; from Old French manumitter; from Classical Latin manumittere, literally, to let go from the hand, free; from manu, ablative of manus, a hand (see manual) + mittere, to send: see mission. Origin of manumit.