Other Measures
- Degree (music), identification of a note in a scale by its relation to the tonic
- Degree of inventiveness in inventions and patents
- Degree of separation in connectivity between groups (first degree is closest)
- Degree of relationship, in kinship between individuals (first degree is closest)
- Consanguinity, or level of kinship
- The positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, in linguistics (e.g. "good", "better", and "best", respectively)
- The severity of a crime, e.g., first degree murder (first degree is worst)
- The intensity of a burn (the higher the worse)
- A level of initiation, often used in fraternal organizations
- A ranking of black belt, in certain martial arts
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Famous quotes containing the word measures:
“Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child within usi.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creaturein order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)
“Away with the cant of Measures, not men!Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.”
—George Canning (17701827)
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