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metadata:
  title: 42nd meeting of the CIPM
  identifier: '42'
  date: '1948-10-22'
  source: BIPM - Pavillon de Breteuil
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/ci/cipm/42-1948
pdf: https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/59880031/CIPM1948.pdf/d48b0007-6e43-bc7f-f80a-2489784c1471
resolutions:
- dates:
  - '1948-10-22'
  subject: CIPM
  type: resolution
  title: Adoption of "degree Celsius"
  identifier: 1948
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/ci/cipm/42-1948/resolution-
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/17315032/CIPM42.pdf/7f36bfaa-e84b-a7fa-650a-edf6c3de1b46
  reference_name: Proceedings of the 42nd CIPM (1948), 1948
  reference_page: 88
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: declares
    date_effective: '1948-10-22'
    message: From three names (“degree centigrade”, “centesimal degree”, “degree Celsius”)
      proposed to denote the degree of temperature, the CIPM has chosen “degree Celsius”
      (PV, *21*, 88).
  notes: This name is also adopted by the 9th CGPM (CR, 64).