Dutch Meaning of degree

graad

Other Dutch words related to graad

Definitions and Meaning of degree in English

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.

FAQs About the word degree

graad

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

hoofdstuk,inch,fase,punt,fase,stap,bedrag,hoek,aspect,knippen

No antonyms found.

degrease => Ontvetten, degravation => vernedering, degras => Degrassi, degradingly => vernederend, degrading => vernederend,