cels
/sɛlz/
noun
- Short for Celsius; a scale for measuring temperature where water freezes at 0° and boils at 100°.
- Set the oven to 180 cels to bake the cookies.
- The weather forecast says it will be 25 cels today, perfect for a picnic.
- In science class, we measured the water temperature at 22 cels.
- Short for celluloid sheets used in traditional hand-drawn animation, each containing a single frame of the animation.
- The animator painted each cel by hand to create the cartoon.
- The museum displayed a gallery of vintage animation cels from the 1930s.
- Collectors pay high prices for original cels from classic Disney movies.