Cryptic crossword clue
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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CELSIUS

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What does CELSIUS mean?

CELSIUS adjective
  1. Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and its boiling point as 100 degrees, 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.

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