degree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
education
geography
geometry
grammar
graph-theory
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
surveying
Etymology: From Middle English degre, borrowed from Old French degré (French: degré), itself from Latin gradus, with the prefix de-.
Inflected forms:
form: degrees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
pos: noun
examples: She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.
gloss: A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
pos: noun
examples: A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.
Most humans have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees.
gloss: A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
pos: noun
examples: 212 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 100 degrees Celsius.
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
gloss: The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
pos: noun
examples: A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.
gloss: The dimensionality of a field extension.
pos: noun
examples: The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.
The Galois field #92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(125)#61;#92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(5³) has degree 3 over its subfield #92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(5).
gloss: The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
pos: noun
gloss: The number of logical connectives in a formula.
pos: noun
gloss: The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
pos: noun
gloss: A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
pos: noun
gloss: An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
pos: noun
examples: The chazzan-artist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Eastern Europe where the chazzan reached the highest degree as an artist, casting from himself all those tasks historically associated with his office which drew him down to the station of beadle and servitor of the community.
gloss: A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
pos: noun
examples: And they axed hym ſayinge: Maſter / we knowe that thou ſayest / and teacheſt ryght / nether conſidereſt thou eny mãnes degre / but teacheſt the waye of god truely.
But when Adam delued, and Eue ſpan,
VVho was then a Gentleman.
Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie,
Then to haue this difference in degrees:
The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees.
So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]
gloss: A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
pos: noun
examples: Louis created the École militaire in Paris in 1751, in which 500 scholarships were designated for noblemen able to prove four degrees of noble status.
gloss: One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
gloss: The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
pos: noun
examples: To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
Then there are the sums that Abramovich would be permitted to invest within the parameters of the profit and sustainability rules – £105m over a rolling three-year period. That, plainly, has stopped and so, to repeat, it is imperative that the transfer of ownership happens with a degree of speed.
Synonyms: compass
degree
grade
level
magnitude
scale
Related words: successor
astronomical
extreme
high
moderate
average
intermediate
underaverage
subaverage
low
small
very low
near zero
infinitesimal
zero
negative
extremely
very
moderately
considerably
nontrivially
a little
mildly
slightly
very slightly
not
not at all
size
value
extent
scope
quantity
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 26. Degree
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 31. Greatness
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 32. Smallness
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Derived words: 180-degree rule
22-degree halo
360-degree
360 degree feedback
45-degree rule
academic degree
advanced degree
arts degree
associate degree
associate's degree
bachelor degree
bachelor's degree
bidegree
codegree
combined degree
comparative degree
crank angle degree
degree absolute
degree Celsius
degree centigrade
degreed
degree-day
degree day
degree days
degree Fahrenheit
degree Kelvin
degreeless
degree mill
degree of comparison
degree of freedom
degree of frost
degree of glory
degree of ionization
degree of polymerization
degree place
degree Rankine
degree sequence
double degree
drinking man's degree
dual degree
equative degree
first-degree
first-degree burn
first-degree murder
first-degree relative
forbidden degree
foundation degree
fourth-degree
fourth-degree burn
gram degree
gramme degree
honorary degree
honorary master's degree
honors degree
honours degree
hyperdegree
in-degree
indegree
Lambeth degree
Levitical degree
master's degree
Mickey Mouse degree
microdegree
millidegree
Mrs. degree
multidegree
murder in the first degree
murder in the second degree
nondegree
out-degree
outdegree
pass degree
positive degree
predegree
sandwich degree
scale degree
second-degree
second-degree burn
second-degree murder
second-degree relative
square degree
subdegree
superlative degree
thick sandwich degree
thin sandwich degree
third degree
third-degree
third-degree burn
third-degree murder
third-degree relative
to a degree
to the nth degree
transcendence degree
Turing degree
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: graad
lang: Albanian
word: gradë
lang: Arabic
word: دَرَجَة
roman: daraja
lang: Armenian
word: աստիճան
roman: astičan
lang: Asturian
word: grau
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dərəcə
lang: Bashkir
word: градус
roman: gradus
lang: Belarusian
word: гра́дус
roman: hrádus
lang: Bengali
word: ডিগ্রী
roman: ḍigri
lang: Bulgarian
word: гра́дус
roman: grádus
lang: Burmese
word: ဒီဂရီ
roman: diga.ri
lang: Catalan
word: grau
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 度
roman: dou⁶
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 度
roman: thu
lang: Chinese
word: 度
roman: tō͘
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 度
roman: dù
lang: Czech
word: stupeň
lang: Danish
word: grad
lang: Dutch
word: graad
lang: Esperanto
word: grado
lang: Estonian
word: kraad
lang: Faroese
word: stig
lang: Finnish
word: aste
lang: French
word: degré
lang: Galician
word: grao
lang: Georgian
word: გრადუსი
roman: gradusi
lang: German
word: Grad
lang: Greek
word: βαθμός
roman: vathmós
lang: Hawaiian
word: kekele
lang: Hawaiian
word: kēkelē
lang: Hebrew
word: מַעֲלָה
roman: ma'alá
lang: Hindi
word: डिग्री
roman: ḍigrī
lang: Hindi
word: अंश
roman: añś
lang: Hungarian
word: fok
lang: Hungarian
word: hőfok
lang: Icelandic
word: stig
lang: Icelandic
word: gráða
lang: Indonesian
word: derajat
lang: Irish
word: céim
lang: Italian
word: grado
lang: Japanese
word: 度
roman: do
lang: Kazakh
word: градус
roman: gradus
lang: Kazakh
word: дәреже
roman: däreje
lang: Khmer
word: អង្សា
roman: ʼɑɑʼɑngsaa
lang: Korean
word: 도
roman: do
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پلە
roman: ple
lang: Kyrgyz
word: градус
roman: gradus
lang: Lao
word: ອົງສ
roman: ʼong sa
lang: Latin
word: gradus numerantur
lang: Latvian
word: grāds
lang: Lithuanian
word: laipsnis
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Grad
lang: Macedonian
word: степен
roman: stepen
lang: Malay
word: darjah
lang: Malay
word: derajat
lang: Maltese
word: grad
lang: Māori
word: tākiri
lang: Māori
word: takiri
lang: Māori
word: putu
lang: Māori
word: tīkiri
lang: Mongolian
word: хэм
roman: xem
lang: Norman
word: dégré
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: grad
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: minusgrad
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: grad
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: minusgrad
lang: Occitan
word: gra
lang: Pashto
word: درجه
roman: daraǰá
lang: Persian
word: درجه
roman: dareje
lang: Persian
word: زینه
roman: zine
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Grod
lang: Polish
word: stopień
lang: Portuguese
word: grau
lang: Romanian
word: grad
lang: Romanian
word: grade
lang: Romansh
word: grad
lang: Russian
word: гра́дус
roman: grádus
lang: Northern Sami
word: gráda
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: степен
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ступањ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: stepen
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: stupanj
lang: Slovak
word: stupeň
lang: Slovene
word: stopinja
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: stopjeń
lang: Spanish
word: grado
lang: Swahili
word: digrii
lang: Swedish
word: grad
lang: Tajik
word: дараҷа
roman: daraja
lang: Tatar
word: дәрәҗә
roman: däräcä
lang: Thai
word: องศา
roman: ong-sǎa
lang: Tibetan
word: ཚ་ཚད
roman: tsha tshad
lang: Tibetan
word: གྲང་ཚད
roman: grang tshad
lang: Turkish
word: derece
lang: Turkmen
word: gradus
lang: Turkmen
word: dereje
lang: Ukrainian
word: гра́дус
roman: hrádus
lang: Urdu
word: ڈگری
roman: ḍigrī
lang: Urdu
word: درجہ
roman: daraja
lang: Uyghur
word: گرادۇس
roman: gradus
lang: Uyghur
word: دەرىجە
roman: derije
lang: Uzbek
word: gradus
lang: Uzbek
word: daraja
lang: Vietnamese
word: độ
lang: Welsh
word: gradd
lang: Yiddish
word: גראַד
roman: grad
lang: Zazaki
word: derece