Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - degree
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n. 1 a stage in an ascending or descending scale, series, or process. 2 a stage in intensity or amount (to a high degree; in some degree). 3 relative condition (each is good in its degree). 4 Math. a unit of measurement of angles, one-ninetieth of a right angle or the angle subtended by one-three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle. Usage Symb.: ° (as in 45°). 5 Physics a unit in a scale of temperature, hardness, etc. Usage Abbr.: deg. (or omitted in the Kelvin scale of temperature). 6 Med. an extent of burns on a scale characterized by the destruction of the skin. 7 an academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course, or conferred as an honour on a distinguished person. 8 a grade of crime or criminality (murder in the first degree). 9 a step in direct genealogical descent. 10 social or official rank. 11 Math. the highest power of unknowns or variables in an equation etc. (equation of the third degree). 12 a masonic rank. 13 a thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row. 14 Mus. the classification of a note by its position in the scale. Phrases and idioms by degrees a little at a time; gradually. degree of freedom 1 Physics the independent direction in which motion can occur. 2 Chem. the number of independent factors required to specify a system at equilibrium. 3 Statistics the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution. degrees of comparison see COMPARISON. forbidden (or prohibited) degrees a number of degrees of descent too few to allow of marriage between two related persons. to a degree colloq. considerably. Derivatives degreeless adj. Etymology: ME f. OF degr{eacute} f. Rmc (as DE-, L gradus step)
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French degré, from Vulgar Latin *degradus, from Latin de+ gradus Date: 13th century a step or stage in a process, course, or order of classification , 2. a rank or grade of official, ecclesiastical, or social position , a particular standing especially as to dignity or worth, the civil condition or status of a person, a step in a direct line of descent or in the line of ascent to a common ancestor, 4. step, stair, a member of a series arranged in steps, a measure of damage to tissue caused by injury or disease, 6. the extent, measure, or scope of an action, condition, or relation , relative intensity , one of the forms or sets of forms used in the comparison of an adjective or adverb, a legal measure of guilt or negligence , 7. a title conferred on students by a college, university, or professional school on completion of a program of study, a grade of membership attained in a ritualistic order or society, an academic title conferred to honor distinguished achievement or service, the formal ceremonies observed in the conferral of such a distinction, a unit of measure for angles equal to an angle with its vertex at the center of a circle and its sides cutting off 1/360 of the circumference, a position or space on the earth or in the heavens as measured by ~s of latitude, 10. a step, note, or tone of a musical scale, a line or space of the musical staff, one of the divisions or intervals marked on a scale of a measuring instrument, 12. the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term of highest ~ in a polynomial, polynomial function, or polynomial equation, the sum of the exponents of the variable factors of a monomial, the greatest power of the derivative of highest order in a differential equation after the equation has been rationalized and cleared of fractions with respect to the derivative, ~d adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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