degree Sentence Examples

  1. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from a prestigious university.
  2. The temperature dropped to freezing degrees overnight, causing frost to form on the windows.
  3. His dedication to his studies was evident in his pursuit of a master's degree.
  4. The angle of the sun's rays changes depending on the degree of tilt of the Earth's axis.
  5. They debated the merits of pursuing a career that required a higher degree of risk.
  6. In mathematics, a circle is divided into 360 degrees.
  7. The defendant was sentenced to ten years in prison for his degree of involvement in the crime.
  8. We measured the angle of the slope to be approximately 30 degrees.
  9. She was awarded an honorary degree for her contributions to the field of medicine.
  10. His patience was tested to the highest degree during the arduous journey.

degree Meaning

Wordnet

degree (n)

a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study

a measure for arcs and angles

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)

Webster

degree (n.)

A step, stair, or staircase.

One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.

Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.

Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.

A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.

Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.

State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.

A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

A line or space of the staff.

Synonyms & Antonyms of degree

FAQs About the word degree

a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality, a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process, an award conferre

inch, phase, chapter, point, step, stage, amount, side, angle,place

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She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from a prestigious university.

The temperature dropped to freezing degrees overnight, causing frost to form on the windows.

His dedication to his studies was evident in his pursuit of a master's degree.

The angle of the sun's rays changes depending on the degree of tilt of the Earth's axis.