Also known as U+00B0, DEGREE SIGN, degree symbol, degree, degrees
typographical symbol used to represent different physical quantities
Key facts
- In unicode
- U+00B0 ° DEGREE SIGN ( & deg; )
- Different from
- U+00BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR U+02DA ˚ RING ABOVE U+030A ◌ ̊ COMBINING RING ABOVE U+1D52 ᵒ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL O U+1D3C ᴼ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL O U+2070 ⁰ SUPERSCRIPT ZERO
- See also
- U+2103 ℃ DEGREE CELSIUS U+2109 ℉ DEGREE FAHRENHEIT U+212A K KELVIN SIGN
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Degree symbol.svg
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- HTML entity
- °
- Unicode character
- °
- key press
- Alt + 0176
- Unicode code point
- 00B0
- Unicode character name
- DEGREE SIGN
- Commons category
- Degree sign
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The degree symbol or degree sign, °, is a glyph or symbol that is used, among other things, to represent degrees of arc (e.g. in geographic coordinate systems), hours (in the medical field), degrees of temperature or alcohol proof. The symbol consists of a small superscript circle.
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degree Fahrenheit
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temperature
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angle
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kelvin
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Antoine Lavoisier
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Tycho Brahe
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