What is degree?

  • (noun): The highest power of a term or variable.
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on degree, degrees:

Vladimir May-Mayevsky - Honors
... Stanislaus 3rd degree, 1900 Order of St ... Anne 3rd degree 1904 Order of St ... Stanislaus 2nd degree, 1906 Order of St ...
Education In Sweden - Higher Education - Advanced Level (avancerad Nivå)
... a student must have obtained a 3-year Swedish degree at the basic level or a corresponding degree from another country or some corresponding qualification ... The degrees that can be obtained at the advanced level are Degree of Master (One year) (magisterexamen), 1 year, 60 higher education credits Degree of ... The Degree of Master (Two years), masterexamen, is a new degree that is intended to be closely linked to continuing education at the graduate level ...
Elliott Wave Principle - Degree
... underlie self-similar wave structures of increasing size or higher degree ... This signals that the movement of the wave one degree higher is upward ... to unfold according to the five and three-wave structure which it underlies one degree higher ...
Yamashita Yoshiaki - Early Years
... He advanced to first degree black belt (shodan) rank in three months, fourth degree (yondan) ranking in two years, and sixth degree (rokudan) in fourteen years ...
Aleksander Kwaśniewski - 1995–2005: Presidency - Degree
... In his candidate for presidency statement Kwaśniewski declared that he had graduated university studies ... Actually he had never written his master thesis, nor passed the university final exams and therefore had no master degree ...

More definitions of "degree":

  • (noun): A unit of temperature on a specified scale.
    Example: "The game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
  • (noun): A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality.
    Example: "A moderate degree of intelligence"; "it is all a matter of degree"
    Synonyms: grade, level
  • (noun): A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process.
    Example: "A remarkable degree of frankness"
    Synonyms: level, stage, point
  • (noun): A measure for arcs and angles.
    Synonyms: arcdegree
  • (noun): The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime).
    Example: "Murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
  • (noun): An award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
    Example: "He earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude"
    Synonyms: academic degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    “A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can’t compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents’ lives.”
    —Frank Pittman (20th century)

    “I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.”
    —Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945)