degree

Definitions of degree in various dictionaries:

noun - a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

noun - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

noun - an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study

noun - a measure for arcs and angles

noun - the highest power of a term or variable

noun - a unit of temperature on a specified scale

noun - the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)

One of a series of steps in a process, course, or progression; a stage: rose by degrees from clerk to manager of the store.

A step in a direct hereditary line of descent or ascent: First cousins are two degrees from their common ancestor.

Relative social or official rank, dignity, or position.

Relative intensity or amount, as of a quality or an attribute: a high degree of accuracy.

The extent or measure of a state of being, an action, or a relation: modernized their facilities to a large degree.

Abbr.

A planar unit of angular measure equal in magnitude to 360 of a complete revolution.

A unit of latitude or longitude, equal to 360 of a great circle.

Mathematics.

The greatest sum of the exponents of the variables in a term of a polynomial or polynomial equation.

The exponent of the derivative of highest order in a differential equation in standard form.

An academic title given by a college or university to a student who has completed a course of study: received the Bachelor of Arts degree at commencement.

A similar title conferred as an honorary distinction.

A division or classification of a specific crime according to its seriousness: murder in the second degree.

A classification of the severity of an injury, especially a burn: a third-degree burn.

One of the forms used in the comparison of adj ectives and ad verb s.

Music.

One of the seven notes of a diatonic scale.

A space or line of the staff.

adj - one of a series of stages [n -S] : DEGREED