Word Finder - degree

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A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)

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She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.

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A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.

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A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.

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A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.

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180 degrees Fahrenheit is equivalent to 100 degrees Celsius.

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The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.

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A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.

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The dimensionality of a field extension.

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The Galois field \operatorname{GF}(125) = \operatorname{GF}(5^3) has degree 3 over its subfield \operatorname{GF}(5).

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The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.

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The number of logical connectives in a formula.

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The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.

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A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.

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(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.

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(obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.

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An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

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A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.

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(genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.

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One's relative state or experience; way, manner.

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The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.

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To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?

Every child feels displaced to some degree when a new sibling arrives.

That made some degree of sense.

You're the one with a degree in animal husbandry.

He was right, to a degree It isn't the past that I'm pitching you, Alex.

The only words she had learned to pronounce with any degree of distinctness previous to March, 1890, were PAPA, MAMMA, BABY, SISTER.

To some degree, Katie had been right.

No doubt, it defanged him to some degree as well.

The armature consists of a bony case, partly composed of solid buckler-like plates, and partly of movable transverse bands, the latter differing in number with the species, and giving to the body a considerable degree of flexibility.

His courage, his bodily strength and size, his skill in the use of weapons, in riding, and in the chase, his speed of foot, his capacity for eating and drinking, his penetrating intellect and his mastery of 22 languages are celebrated to a degree which is almost incredible.

The following sketch of the manufacturing industry of France takes account chiefly of those of its branches which are capable in some degree of localization.

Sonya, Dolokhov, and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree Natasha.

The material was sand of every degree of fineness and of various rich colors, commonly mixed with a little clay.

After being professor of philosophy at several provincial universities, he received the degree of doctor, and came to Paris in 1858 as master of conferences at the Ecole Normale.

He received the honorary degree of Litt.

He had in the highest degree a practical tenacity which Pierre lacked, and without fuss or strain on his part this set things going.

It had been in the back of her mind, but the babies had overridden even that degree of intimacy.

They are in fact in some degree comparable to sub-regions 3 and 4 in the Old World.

The Arab astronomers measured a degree on the plains of Mesopotamia, thereby deducing a fair approximation to the size of the earth.

This slender distinction was made much of by most subsequent writers until Nathanael Carpenter in 1625 pointed out that the difference between geography and chorography was simply one of degree, not of kind.

In 1530 he took his degree as master of arts.

His daughter Dorothea, born on the 10th of August 1770, was one of the most beautiful and learned women of her time, and received in 1787 the degree of doctor.

The degree of the separation is the sum of the degrees of the component separates.

After a successful course of study at the College Rollin, he proceeded to Munich, where he attended the lectures of Schelling, and took his degree in philosophy in 1836.

After being cure successively of two villages in that diocese, Loisy went in May 1881, to study and take a theological degree, to the Institut Catholique in Paris.

This degree of precision is far beyond any we 1 Mon.

The Mithraic priest, sacerdos or antistes, was sometimes also of the degree of pater.

On the 12th of January 1754 he was admitted as sizar at St John's College, Cambridge, and took his degree of B.A.

She said she did not consider a degree of any real value, but thought it was much more desirable to do something original than to waste one's energies only for a degree.

A solemn meeting of the lodge of the second degree was convened, at which Pierre promised to communicate to the Petersburg Brothers what he had to deliver to them from the highest leaders of their order.

The degree of our conception of freedom or inevitability depends in this respect on the greater or lesser lapse of time between the performance of the action and our judgment of it.

Actually, it already had to a degree.

The technical high school, which since 1899 has possessed the right to confer the degree of doctor of engineering, practically enjoys academic status and so do the veterinary high school and the school of art.

The connexion of the Pterobranchia with the Polyzoa is in the highest degree questionable.

The principal things to be attended to are to preserve a moderate state of moisture and a proper mild degree of warmth; and the treatment must vary according to the season.

On the 11th of May 1820 he took his doctor's degree; in the same year he qualified as Privatdozent at the university of Erlangen.

The fact that in tabby Persians the body-markings are never so strong as in the short-haired breeds is in some degree confirmatory of this, as suggesting descent from a nearly wholecoloured type.

Fleeming Jenkin was educated at first in Scotland, but in 1846 the family went to live abroad, owing to financial straits, and he studied at Genoa University, where he took a first-class degree in physical science.

The university of Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D.

He took immense pains with his work, and to some degree anticipated the modern scientific method of writing history.

Having studied medicine at Paris, Lucas took the degree of M.D.

After attending the Cologne gymnasium, he entered the university of Berlin in 1844, and took his doctor's degree there three years later.

Other honours were the degree of D.D., 1758, and those of F.R.S.

In 1853 he was appointed assistant, and in the following year won a doctor's degree with his treatise Nova elementa Thetidis.

He further found that there was an element which he termed boreal in a more intense degree, which amounted to about a fifteenth of the whole flora.

While the republics of Italy, and above all the state of Venice, were engaged in distributing the rich products of India and the Far East over the Western world, it was impossible that motives of curiosity, as well as a desire of commercial advantage, should not be awakened to such a degree as to impel some of the merchants to visit those remote lands.

Probably in 1304 he went to Paris, in 1307 he received his doctor's degree from the university, and in the same year was appointed regent of the theological school.

The urban population, divided into two categories according to their taxable wealth, elects delegates direct to the college of the government (Guberniya), and is thus represented in the second degree; but the system of division into categories, according not to the number of taxpayers but to the amount they pay, gives a great preponderance to the richer classes.

At St Petersburg a women's medical academy, the examinations of which were even more searching than those of the ordinary academy (especially as regards diseases of women and children), was opened, but after about one hundred women had received the degree of M.D.

To a less degree, the same is true of railways built for a special instead of a general commercial interest.

In 1899 the university of Jena gave him the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy for his work on Hegel.