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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“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable purity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If we define a sign as an exact reference, it must include symbol because a symbol is an exact reference too. The difference seems to be that a sign is an exact reference to something definite and a symbol an exact reference to something indefinite.”
—William York Tindall (1903–1981)