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Celsius used 0Â° for the boiling point of water and 100Â° for the melting point of snow. This was later inverted to put 0Â° on the cold end and 100Â° on the hot end, and in that form it gained widespread use. It was known simply as the centigrade scale until in 1948 the name was changed to the Celsius temperature scale.
(Units) a scale of temperature in which 0Â° represents the melting point of ice and 100Â° represents the boiling point of water. Noun. 1. Celsius scale - a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees. centigrade scale, international scale. temperature scale - a system of measuring temperature.