Word Finder - degrees

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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?

It is a mighty river, rising in the Rocky Mountains, and crossing eighteen degrees of longitude.

It must be nearly 115 degrees.

The temperature of his tent seemed to drop by ten degrees.

For, as almost everywhere else, this Teutonic nobility admits of degrees, though it is yet harder to say in what the degrees of nobility consisted than to say in what nobility consisted itself.

The herm is a dry work and the head upon the coins shows various degrees of idealization.

The gametophyte is a small thalloid structure which shows varying degrees of independence affording an interesting transition to the next group.

These rights are of simple possession, but they are transmissible in certain degrees to the heirs of the possessor.

He gathered by degrees around him "a kind of feudal clan of servants and retainers," and he plunged, with more generous ardour than coolness of judgment, into the troubled politics of the country.

Q 1 The Unreduced Generating Function Which Enumerates The Covariants Of Degrees 0, 0' In The Coefficients And Order E In The Variables.

Among the drawbacks of this temper, which on the whole made for progress, was the rise of a school of excessive scepticism, which, forgetting the value of the accumulated stores of empiricism, despised those degrees of moral certainty that, in so complex a study and so tentative a practice as medicine, must be our portion for the present, and even for a long future, however great the triumphs of medicine may become.

Highly complex as are all animal tissues, or nearly all, yet in this category of high complexity are degrees higher and higher again of which we can form little conception, so elaborate they are, so peculiar in their respective properties, and probably so fugitive.

On the other hand, the reagents by which such modifications are apt to be produced are not necessarily simple; many of them likewise are known to be of very high degrees of complexity, approaching perhaps in complexity the molecules to which they are akin.

An enormous accumulation of lunatics of all sorts and degrees seems to have paralysed public authorities, who, at vast expense in buildings, mass them more or less indiscriminately in barracks, and expect that their sundry and difficult disorders can be properly studied and treated by a medical superintendent charged with the whole domestic establishment, with a few young assistants under him.

The University of London was incorporated by royal charter in 1836, as an examining body for conferring degrees.

At the principal towns benches of honorary magistrates, exercising powers of various degrees, have been constituted.

There may be said to be three degrees of strictness in the observances of the Sikhs.

The quality of plasticity is developed to very different degrees in different metals, and even in the same species it depends on temperature, and may be modified by mechanical or physical operations.

The puma has an exceedingly wide range of geographical distribution, extending over a hundred degrees of latitude, from Canada in the north to Patagonia in the south, and formerly was generally diffused in suitable localities from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, but the advances of civilization have curtailed the extent of the districts which it inhabits.

They may be grown outside in England during the summer months, but a few degrees of frost is fatal to them.

Almost all " Hittitologues " assume a connexion between the monuments and the Kheta-Khatti-Hittites, but in various degrees; e.g.

There are various degrees of hereditary chiefships, and a supreme chief recognized by all.

In the operation of ploughing the furrow slice is separated from the soil below, and although in humid soils this layer may be left to settle by degrees, in semi-arid regions this loosened layer becomes.

The employment of the precarium by the Church seems to have been one of the surest means by which this form of landholding was carried over from the Romans to the Frankish period and developed into new forms. It came to be made by degrees the subject of written contract, by which the rights of the holder were more definitely defined and protected than had been the case in Roman law.

The lord's court took the place of the public court in civil, and even by degrees in criminal cases.

He reorganized the committee of public education (law of the 27th of February 1880), and proposed a regulation for the conferring of university degrees, which, though rejected, aroused violent polemics because the 7th article took away from the unauthorized religious orders the right to teach.

There was a brilliant exhibition of meteors on the 10th of April 1803, and in other years meteors have been very abundant on about the 19th to the 21st of April, shooting from a radiant a few degrees south-west of a Lyrae.

Everything is air at different degrees of density, and under the influence of heat, which expands, and of cold, which contracts its volume, it gives rise to the several phases of existence.

He entered St John's College, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner in 1701, and took degrees of LL.B.

It would seem that the Trematodes present various degrees of such adaptation, for whilst some - e.g.

In higher degrees, where full correction might increase the myopia by inducing a strain of the accommodation, somewhat weaker glasses should be used for near work.

In the highest degrees the complete correction may be employed, but lorgnettes are generally preferred, as they can be removed when the eyes become fatigued.

In the slighter forms no inconvenience may result; but in higher degrees prolonged work is apt to give rise to aching and watering of the eyes, headache, inability to read or sew for any length of time, and even to double vision and internal strabismus.

The lower forms of life prefigure man in unequal degrees of imperfection; they exist for his sake, but they are not regarded as representing necessary antecedent conditions of human existence.

By degrees, however, the progresses of the feudal chiefs to and from Yedo, which at first were simple and economical, developed features of competitive magnificence, and the importance of good roads and suitable accommodation received increased attention.

The Rhine valley is the warmest district in Germany, but the higher elevations of the Black Forest record the greatest degrees of cold experienced in the south.

In God there are three infinite and uncreated "degrees" of being, and in man and all things corresponding three degrees, finite and created.

Buchtel College provides three courses leading to the degrees of A.B., Ph.B.

The college meets with strong support from the enlightened portion of the Mussulman community, whose aim is to raise it to the status of a university, with the power of conferring degrees.

But in both East and West, this theory of his became established only by very imperceptible degrees, and indeed, strictly speaking, the process was never completed.

Among Protestant churches again there are minor doctrinal differences, which are held with various degrees of exclusiveness or liberality according to the degree of departure from the Roman Catholic Church.

The canonists define the degrees of suspicion as "light" calling for vigilance, "vehement" demanding denunciation, and "violent" requiring punishment.

He held honorary degrees at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh and Durham, was an Associate of the Institute of France; a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and of the Order of Leopold.

He was president of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Society of Arts, and received numerous honorary degrees.

We know now that in so far as life and living matter can be investigated by science, animals and plants cannot be described as being alive in different degrees.

Sherman had the good fortune to learn the art of command by degrees.

The quantity of alcohol present in an aqueous solution is determined by a comparison of its specific gravity with standard tables, or directly by the use of an alcoholometer, which is a hydrometer graduated so as to read per cents by weight (degrees according to Richter) or volume per cents (degrees according to Tralles).

If two monatomic molecules, having energy of translation only, equivalent to 3 degrees of freedom, combined to form a diatomic molecule with 5 degrees of freedom, the energy lost would.

If two diatomic molecules, having each 5 degrees of freedom, combine to form a molecule with 6 degrees of freedom, we should have n = 2, or the energy lost would be 2pc per unit mass.

If the molecules and molecular aggregates were more complicated, and the number of degrees of freedom of the aggregates were limited to 6, or were the same as for single molecules, we should have n-= so/R.

The archbishop also continues to grant degrees in the faculties of theology, music and law, which are known as Lambeth degrees.