English Explanatory Dictionary

degree

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.)
  2. A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
  3. A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
  4. The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
  5. The dimensionality of a field extension.
  6. The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
  7. The number of logical connectives in a formula.
  8. The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
  9. A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
  10. Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
  11. A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
  12. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈɡɹiː/ en-us-degree.ogg en-uk-degree.ogg /ˈɖɪɡᵚ.ri/

Word forms

degree degrees

Etymology

From Middle English degre, borrowed from Old French degré (French: degré), itself from Latin gradus, with the prefix de-.

Synonyms

compass degree grade level magnitude scale ° arcdegree

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 + = + +... = − = × = ÷ = √ = log(base) = Or sometimes mul:° × ×... = =

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

Translations

Afrikaans: graad Albanian: gradë Arabic: دَرَجَة Armenian: աստիճան Asturian: grau Azerbaijani: dərəcə Bashkir: градус Belarusian: гра́дус Bengali: ডিগ্রী Bulgarian: гра́дус Burmese: ဒီဂရီ Catalan: grau Chinese Cantonese: 度 Hakka Chinese: 度 Chinese: 度 Chinese Mandarin: 度 Czech: stupeň Danish: grad Dutch: graad Esperanto: grado Estonian: kraad Faroese: stig Finnish: aste French: degré Galician: grao Georgian: გრადუსი German: Grad Greek: βαθμός Hawaiian: kekele Hawaiian: kēkelē Hebrew: מַעֲלָה Hindi: डिग्री Hindi: अंश Hungarian: fok Hungarian: hőfok Icelandic: stig Icelandic: gráða Indonesian: derajat Irish: céim Italian: grado Japanese: 度 Kazakh: градус Kazakh: дәреже Khmer: អង្សា Korean: 도
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