Celsius vs. Metric — What's the Difference?

The degree Celsius is a unit of temperature on the Celsius scale, a temperature scale originally known as the centigrade scale. The degree Celsius (symbol: °C) can refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius scale or a unit to indicate a difference or range between two temperatures.

Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.

Of or relating to a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 0° and the boiling point as 100° under normal atmospheric pressure. See Table at measurement.

(music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.

Alternative case form of Celsius

Of or relating to distance.

The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)

(mathematics) A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": $d(x,y)\; \backslash ge\; 0$, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": $d(x,y)\; =\; 0\; \backslash mbox\{\; iff\; \}\; x=y$, (3) "symmetry": $d(x,y)\; =\; d(y,x)$, and (4) "triangle inequality": $d(x,y)\; \backslash le\; d(x,z)\; +\; d(z,y)$.

(mathematics) A metric tensor.

Abbreviation of metric system

To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.

A function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

A decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds);

A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

Based on the meter as a standard of measurement;

The rhythmic arrangement of syllables