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Degree

noun

A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality. Synonyms: grade, level. "A high level of care is required" , "It is all a matter of degree"

A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process. Synonyms: level, point, stage. "At what stage are the social sciences?"

An award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study. Synonym: academic degree.

A measure for arcs and angles. Synonym: arcdegree.

The highest power of a term or variable.

A unit of temperature on a specified scale.

The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime). "A second degree burn"

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... court was liable to poundage. I was counsel in the case, and threw him into a furious passion, by strenuously resisting the demand; the poundage was to go into his own pocket—being payable to the chief clerk—an office held in trust for him. If he was in any degree influenced by this consideration, I make no doubt that he ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... called Mahomet, and the principal guide Achmet. The former, though almost black, declared that his colour was of a light brown. He spoke very bad English, was excessively conceited, and irascible to a degree. Accustomed to the easy-going expeditions on the Nile, he had no taste for the rough sort of work ...

— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston

... in singulis diebus effusa.' There are thirty-two poems in all, divided into five books. The fifth is incomplete; and, if we may judge from the unfinished state of its preface, was published after the author's death. The poems are extremely varied in subject, and to a lesser degree in metre, hendecasyllables, alcaics, and sapphics being found as well as hexameters. They comprise poems in praise of the appearance and the achievements of Domitian,[572] consolations to friends and patrons for the loss of relatives or favourite slaves,[573] lamentations of ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... birth and highest public rank assembled round the daily board, for the guests to take their places next the master in the order of their arrival; those who were present at the beginning of the meal sat, each according to his degree, next the Magnificent, not moving afterwards for any one who might appear. So it happened that Michelangelo found himself frequently seated above Lorenzo's children and other persons of great consequence, with whom that house continually ...

— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... twenty years of struggle and work for the little black boy to realize his hopes. He had grown to be a grave man of thirty-three before it was accomplished. Now he had come home from a Northern college with his diploma and his degree. ...

— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

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