In Mathematics
- Degree (mathematics), with several meanings
- Degree of a polynomial, the exponent of the term with the highest exponent
- Degree of a field extension
- The degree of an algebraic number field, its degree as a field extension of the rational numbers
- Degree (graph theory), or valency, the number of edges incident to a vertex of a graph
- Degree of a continuous mapping
- Degrees of freedom (statistics), the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary
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