Also known as U+00B0, DEGREE SIGN, degree symbol, degree, degrees
typographical symbol used to represent different physical quantities
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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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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).