The degree symbol, in Unicode: U+00B0 ° degree sign (HTML: ° °), is a typographical symbol that is used, among other things, to represent degrees of arc (e.g. in geographic coordinate systems) or degrees of temperature. The symbol consists of a small raised circle, historically a zero glyph.
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