system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If we use degrees ( ⁰ ) to measure angles, why do we also use degrees as a measurement of temperature?
gpt
The most basic meaning of "degree" is "An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values."

There are 360 degrees in a circle because there are 360 individual steps. (You can fine-tune a degree using arcminutes (1/60th of a degree) or arcseconds (1/60th of an arcminute, or 1/3600th of a degree).

Similarly, there are steps in temperature. 1 degree Celsius is ever so slightly cooler than 2 degrees Celsius.