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degree
Found in thesaurus: property, state, laurels, honor, accolade, honour, award, temperature unit, angular unit, exponent, power, index, magnitude
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degree
n.
rank, extent; unit of measurement of angles; unit of measurement of temperature; academic title received after completing a program of studies at a university or college
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Degree
Degree may refer to:
As a unit of measurement
- Degree symbol (°), a notation used in science, engineering and mathematics
- Degree (angle), a unit of angle measurement
- Degree in geographic coordinate system
- Degree (temperature), a unit of temperature measurement
- Degree API, a measure of density in the petroleum industry
- Degree Baumé, a pair of density scales
- Degree Brix, a measure of sugar concentration
- Degree Gay-Lussac, a measure of the alcohol content of a liquid by volume, ranging from 0° to 100°
- Degree proof, or simply proof, the alcohol content of a liquid, ranging from 0° to 175° in the UK, and from 0° to 200° in the U.S.
- Degree of curvature, a unit of curvature measurement, used in civil engineering
- Degrees of freedom (mechanics), the number of displacements and/or rotations needed to define the position and orientation of a body
- Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry), a concept describing dependence on a countable set of parameters
- Degree of frost, a unit of temperature measurement
- Degrees Lintner, a measure of enzymatic activity
- Degrees Lovibond, a measure of transparency
- Degree of unsaturation, in organic chemistry, also known as the index of hydrogen deficiency or rings plus double bonds
- dGH, degrees of general hardness of water
- Degree of carbonate hardness of water (degree KH)
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degree
Noun
1. a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate degree of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"
(synonym) grade, level
(hypernym) magnitude
(hyponym) quality, caliber, calibre
(attribute) high
2. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?"
(synonym) level, stage, point
(hypernym) state
(hyponym) ladder
3. an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude"
(synonym) academic degree
(hypernym) award, accolade, honor, honour, laurels
(hyponym) associate degree, associate
4. a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
(hypernym) temperature unit
(hyponym) degree Centigrade, degree Celsius, C
5. a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle"
(synonym) arcdegree
(hypernym) angular unit
(part-holonym) oxtant
(part-meronym) minute, arcminute, minute of arc
6. the highest power of a term or variable
(hypernym) exponent, power, index
(hyponym) degree of a term
7. the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
(hypernym) magnitude
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degree
n.
stupeň; úroveň; míra; akademická hodnost, akademický titul
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degree
Rzecz.
stopień; stopień; stopień; miara; stopień naukowy
