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English Dictionary: degree	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for degree
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
degree n a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" Synonym(s): degree, grade, level a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" Synonym(s): degree, level, stage, point an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" Synonym(s): academic degree, degree a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle" Synonym(s): degree, arcdegree the highest power of a term or variable a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature" the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Degree \Degree"\, n. [F. degr[82], OF. degret, fr. LL. degradare. See {Degrade}.] 1. A step, stair, or staircase. [Obs.] By ladders, or else by degree. --Rom. of R. 2. 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. 3. The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position. [bd]A dame of high degree.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]A knight is your degree.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Lord or lady of high degree.[b8] --Lowell. 4. Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree. The degree of excellence which proclaims genius, is different in different times and different places. --Sir. J. Reynolds. 5. 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. Note: In the United States diplomas are usually given as the evidence of a degree conferred. In the humanities the first degree is that of bachelor of arts (B. A. or A. B.); the second that of master of arts (M. A. or A. M.). The degree of bachelor (of arts, science, divinity, law, etc.) is conferred upon those who complete a prescribed course of undergraduate study. The first degree in medicine is that of doctor of medicine (M. D.). The degrees of master and doctor are sometimes conferred, in course, upon those who have completed certain prescribed postgraduate studies, as doctor of philosophy (Ph. D.); but more frequently the degree of doctor is conferred as a complimentary recognition of eminent services in science or letters, or for public services or distinction (as doctor of laws (LL. D.) or doctor of divinity (D. D.), when they are called honorary degrees.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
degree The degree (or valency) of a node in a graph is the number of edges joined to it.