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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?

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The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.

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The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.

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A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix.

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Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.

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1/12 the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.

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A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.

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A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, the English digit of 1/16 foot (about 1.9 cm).

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A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.

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Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.

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A telephone number.

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A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.

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The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.

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The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.

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A very short distance.

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"Don't move an inch!"

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A small island

The plate was yellow with black number; two digits, a space, and three digits.

She stood up and bowed when she discovered eight different digits appeared, the numbers two through nine.

The system drops the last two digits of the number so it's never even received at the call center.

The first step is to regard the product of two numbers as containing as many digits as the two numbers put together.

The middle toe was the largest, and the weight of the body was mainly supported on this and the two adjoining digits, which appear to have been encased in hoofs, thus foreshadowing the tridactyle type common in perissodactyle and certain extinct groups of ungulates.

Hence the digits are multiplied in pairs, and grouped according to the power of io which each product contains.

At each stage of the division the number of digits in the reduced dividend is decreased by one.

A common method is to reverse the digits in one of the numbers; but this is only appropriate to the old-fashioned method of writing down products from the right.

The method E of § ioi being adopted, the multiplicand and the multiplier are written with a space after as many digits (of each) as will be required in the product (on the principle explained in § 1 01); and the multiplication is performed from the left, two extra figures being kept in.

As regards the feet, a reduction in the number of digits from the typical five is a frequent feature, more especially among the hoofed mammals, where the culmination in this respect is attained by the existing members of the horse tribe and certain representatives of the extinct South American Proterotheriidae, both of which are monodactyle.

With few exceptions, the terminal extremities of the digits of both limbs of mammals are more or less protected or armed by epidermic plates or sheaths, constituting the various forms of nails, claws or hoofs.

With regard to the evolution of marsupials and placentals, it has been pointed out that the majority of modern marsupials exhibit in the structure of their feet traces of the former opposability of the thumb and great toe to the other digits; and it has accordingly been argued that all marsupials are descended from arboreal ancestors.

The Ancylopoda, again, typified by Chalicotherium, and characterized by the claw-like character of the digits, are probably another northern group, common to the eastern and western hemispheres.

In some instances, however, the feet of such polydactyle horses bear little resemblance to those of the extinct Hipparion or Anchitherium, but look rather as if due to that tendency to reduplication of parts which occurs so frequently as a monstrous condition, especially among domesticated animals, and which, whatever its origin, certainly cannot in many instances, as the cases of entire limbs superadded, or of six digits in man, be attributed to reversion.

The muscles of the limbs are modified from those of the ordinary mammalian type in accordance with the reduced condition of the bones and the simple requirements of flexion and extension of the joints, no such actions as pronation and supination, or opposition of digits, being possible or needed.

Some of the species are thoroughly aquatic and have fully webbed toes, others are terrestrial, except during the breeding season, others are adapted for burrowing, by means of the much-enlarged and sharp-edged tubercle at the base of the inner toe, whilst not a few have the tips of the digits dilated into disks by which they are able to climb on trees.

The carpus, which remains cartilaginous in many of the Stegocephalia and Caudata, contains six to eight elements when the manus is fully developed, whilst the number is reduced in those forms which have only two or three digits.

Except in some of the Stegocephalia, there are only four functional digits in the manus, but the Ecaudata have a more or less distinct rudiment of pollex; in the Caudata it seems to be the outer digit which has been suppresssed, as atavistic reappearance of a fifth digit takes place on the outer side of the manus, as it does on the pes in those forms in which the toes are reduced to four.

These asperities usually form brush-like patches on the inner side of one or more of the digits, but may extend over the inner surface of the limbs and on the breast and chin; the use of them on these parts is sufficiently obvious, but they are sometimes also present, without apparent function, on various parts of the foot, as in Discoglossus, Bombinator, and Pelodytes.

Gidley is of opinion that the lateral digits may have been fully developed.

Be this as it may, the next North American representatives of the family constitute the genera Protohippus and Merychippus of the Miocene, in both of which the lateral digits are fully developed and terminate in small though perfect hoofs.

No, but he signed an anonymous name in the first place and probably changed the last three digits of his car license plate.

The name Sudoku is the Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, meaning " the digits must remain single " .

Plenty are missing digits, or eyes, or have physical conditions that render one or more biometrics unstable or hard to read.

There are multiple areas of dense soft tissue calcification affecting several digits.

The bottom line has 40% larger digits 100-hour chronograph with lap and split 30-lap memory with average heart rate and split time.

These are infinite decimals in which the digits are uniformly distributed.

The digits following the belt section designation represent the nominal belt width times 100.

Current thinking backed by protocols is that by dialing those digits, a woman admits she can't control things around her.

Large results - where the number of digits to the left of the decimal point exceeds the current setting of numeric digits.

Only in Japan did the brand's sales fall short of the double digits.

The last 6 hexadecimal digits comprise the interface serial number, or another value administered by the specific vendor.

If it is an octal digit (from 0 to 7) there must be two more such digits.

The data bytes are scanned in first to last order with the hex digits being taken in low-to-high order within each byte.

The precision value specifies the number of fraction digits in the result. | Pops three values and computes a modular exponentiation.

Testing constraints by artificial selection - direct and correlated responses in butterfly eyespots and in vertebrate digits.

All the digits 0 to 9 have the same width in a proportional font.

If val has more fractional digits than can be represented in the DynFixed, fractional digits than can be represented in the DynFixed, fractional digits are truncated and the return value is false.

Browsers will convert two-digit hex digits that are preceded by a percent sign into a valid character.

The digits are divided into four parts separated by a hyphen or a space.

If the command is fol- lowed by digits, executing universal-argument again ends the numeric argument, but is otherwise ignored.

If this command is followed by one or more digits, optionally with a leading minus sign, those digits define the argument.

The main screen allows the user to hide or show the first, second or answer digits.

The slips thus placed in contact give the multiples of the number 2085, the digits in each parallelogram being added together; for example, corresponding to the number 6 on the right-hand slip, we have o, 8+3, 0+4, 2, i; whence we find o, I, 5, 2, r as the digits, written backwards, of 6X2085.

Furthermore it is so thoroughly adapted to running upon the desert sand that its digits are devoid of adhesive lamellae.

Fixed by the Romans at 16 digits (13+1/3 = Roman foot), or its cubit at 1+4/5 Roman feet, it was legally = 13.94 at 123 B.C. (42); and 7+1/2 Philetaerean stadia were = Roman mile (18).

This has been so usually confounded with the 20.63 family, owing to the juxtaposition of 28 digits with that cubit in Egypt, that it should be observed how the difficulty of their incommensurability has been felt.

The pre-Greek examples of this cubit in Egypt, mentioned by Böckh (2), give 18.23 as a mean, which is 25 digits of 0.7292 digits, close to 0.729, but has no relation to the 20.63 cubit.

The evolution consists first in progressive increase in size; second, in the acceleration of the median digit and retardation of the lateral digits, the latter becoming more and more elevated from the ground until finally in Equus (6) they are the lateral splints, which in the embryonic condition have vestigial cartilages attached representing the last traces of the lateral phalanges.

In Order To Adapt It To The Gregorian Calendar, We Must First Add The To Days That Were Left Out Of The Year 1582; In The Second Place We Must Add One Day For Every Century That Has Elapsed Since 1600, In Consequence Of The Secular Suppression Of The Intercalary Day; And Lastly We Must Deduct The Units Contained In A Fourth Of The Same Number, Because Every Fourth Centesimal Year Is Still A Leap Year.Q Denoting, Therefore, The Number Of The Century (Or The Date After The Two Right Hand Digits Have Been Struck Out) By C, The Value Of L Must Be Increased By 10 (C 16) (6 C L = 7M 3 X (4 X) W Io (C 16) (C 4 16) W; That Is, Since 3 To =13 Or 6 (The 7 Days Being Rejected, As They Do Not Affect The Value Of L), L=7M 6 X () W _ 16) (_ L _ 6)W; This Formula Is Perfectly General, And Easily Calculated.