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Degree

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  • Degree symbol
    Degree symbol
    The degree symbol is a typographical symbol, or glyph, that is used to represent degrees of arc or temperature...

    , (°), a notation used in science, engineering and mathematics
  • Degree (angle)
    Degree (angle)
    A degree , usually denoted by ° , is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1⁄360 of a full rotation; one degree is equivalent to π/180 radians...

    , a unit of angle measurement
  • Degree (temperature)
    Degree (temperature)
    The term degree is used in several scales of temperature. The symbol ° is usually used, followed by the initial letter of the unit, for example “°C” for degree Celsius.-Scales of temperature measured in degrees:...

    , a unit of temperature measurement
  • Degree API, a measure of density in the petroleum industry
  • Degree Baumé, a pair of density scales
  • Degree Brix, a measure of sugar concentration
  • Degree Gay-Lussac, a measure of the alcohol content of a liquid by volume, ranging from 0° to 100°
  • Degree proof, or simply proof, the alcohol content of a liquid, ranging from 0° to 175° in the UK, and from 0° to 200° in the U.S.
  • Degree of curvature
    Degree of curvature
    Degree of curve or degree of curvature is a measure of curvature used in civil engineering for its easy use in layout surveying.A n-degree curve turns n degrees over some agreed-upon distance...

    , a unit of curvature measurement, used in civil engineering
  • Degrees of freedom (mechanics), the number of displacements and/or rotations needed to define the position and orientation of a body
  • Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
    Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
    Degrees of freedom is a general term used in explaining dependence on parameters, and implying the possibility of counting the number of those parameters...

    , a concept describing dependence on a countable set of parameters
  • Degree of frost
    Degree of frost
    A degree of frost is a non-standard unit of measure for air temperature meaning degrees below melting point of water...

    , a unit of temperature measurement
  • Degree of unsaturation
    Degree of unsaturation
    The degree of unsaturation formula is used in organic chemistry to help draw chemical structures. The formula lets the user determine how many rings, double bonds, and triple bonds are present in the compound to be drawn...

    , in organic chemistry, also known as the index of hydrogen deficiency or rings plus double bonds

  • Degree (mathematics)
    Degree (mathematics)
    In mathematics, there are several meanings of degree depending on the subject.- Unit of angle :A degree , usually denoted by ° , is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1⁄360 of a full rotation...

    , with several meanings
  • Degree of a polynomial
    Degree of a polynomial
    When a polynomial is expressed as a sum or difference of terms , the exponent of the term with the highest exponent is the degree of the polynomial. The degree of a term is the sum of the powers of each variable in the term. The words degree and order are used interchangeably.For example, the...

    , the exponent of the term with the highest exponent
  • Degree of a field extension
    Degree of a field extension
    In mathematics, more specifically field theory, the degree of a field extension is a rough measure of the "size" of the extension. The concept plays an important role in many parts of mathematics, including algebra and number theory — indeed in any area where fields appear prominently.-...

  • Degree (graph theory)
    Degree (graph theory)
    In graph theory, the degree of a vertex of a graph is the number of edges incident to the vertex, with loops counted twice. The degree of a vertex is denoted The maximum degree of a graph G, denoted by Δ, is the maximum degree of its vertices, and the minimum degree of a graph, denoted by δ, is...

    , or valency, the number of edges incident to a vertex of a graph
  • Degree of a continuous mapping
    Degree of a continuous mapping
    In topology, the term degree is applied to continuous maps between manifolds of the same dimension. The degree of a map can be defined in terms of homology groups or, for smooth maps, in terms of preimages of regular values. It is a generalization of winding number. For example, consider the map...

  • Degrees of freedom (statistics)
    Degrees of freedom (statistics)
    In statistics, the number of degrees of freedom is the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.Estimates of statistical parameters can be based upon different amounts of information or data. The number of independent pieces of information that go into the...

    , the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary

  • Academic degree
    Academic degree
    A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study.- History :...

    , an academic award or title, including:
    • Foundation degree
      Foundation degree
      The Foundation Degree is a vocational qualification introduced by the government of the United Kingdom in September 2001, which is available in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...

    • Associate's degree
      Associate's degree
      An associate degree is an academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, four-year universities, business colleges and some bachelor's degree-granting colleges/universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years....

    • Bachelor's degree
      Bachelor's degree
      A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

    • Master's degree
      Master's degree
      A master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

    • Doctorate
      Doctorate
      A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession . The best-known example...

    • Engineer's degree
      Engineer's degree
      An engineer's degree refers to a various number of academic degrees relating to engineering:-In Europe:In Europe, it can be an approximately five-year degree roughly equivalent to a master's degree....

    • Specialist degree
      Specialist degree
      -The Specialist degree in the Commonwealth of Independent States:The specialist degree was also the only first degree in the former Soviet Union. In the early 1990s bakalavr and magistr degrees were introduced in all the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, except in Turkmenistan...

    • Ad eundem degree
      Ad eundem degree
      An ad eundem degree is a courtesy degree awarded by one university or college to an alumnus of another.Before the advent of modern means of transportation had shrunk the world, it was common, when a graduate from one American college moved into the neighborhood of another, for his new college to...

    • Honorary degree
      Honorary degree
      An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university has waived the usual requirements...

    • Lambeth degree
      Lambeth degree
      Lambeth degrees are academic degrees conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury under the authority of the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533 as successor of the papal legate in England...

    • External degree
      External degree
      An external degree is a degree offered by a university to students who have not attended the institution. These undergraduates may be called external students and may study at classes unconnected with the university, or independently, or by distance learning...

  • Vocational degree, an award in vocational education

  • Degree (music)
    Degree (music)
    In music theory, a scale degree is the name of a particular note of a scale in relation to the tonic...

    , 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
  • The positive
    Positive (linguistics)
    Positive is the form of an adjective or adverb on which comparative and superlative are formed with suffixes -ier, -lier, -iest, or -liest, or the forms more/less for polysyllabic adjectives/adverbs. In English, good is a positive adjectival form corresponding to the comparative better and the...

    , comparative
    Comparative
    In grammar, the comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb which denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another, and is used in this context with a subordinating conjunction, such as than,...

    , and superlative
    Superlative
    In grammar the superlative of an adjective or adverb is the greatest form of adjective or adverb which indicates that something has some feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to in a given context...

     degrees, in linguistics (e.g.
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As a unit of measurement

  • Degree symbol
    Degree symbol
    The degree symbol is a typographical symbol, or glyph, that is used to represent degrees of arc or temperature...

    , (°), a notation used in science, engineering and mathematics
  • Degree (angle)
    Degree (angle)
    A degree , usually denoted by ° , is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1⁄360 of a full rotation; one degree is equivalent to π/180 radians...

    , a unit of angle measurement
  • Degree (temperature)
    Degree (temperature)
    The term degree is used in several scales of temperature. The symbol ° is usually used, followed by the initial letter of the unit, for example “°C” for degree Celsius.-Scales of temperature measured in degrees:...

    , a unit of temperature measurement
  • Degree API, a measure of density in the petroleum industry
  • Degree Baumé, a pair of density scales
  • Degree Brix, a measure of sugar concentration
  • Degree Gay-Lussac, a measure of the alcohol content of a liquid by volume, ranging from 0° to 100°
  • Degree proof, or simply proof, the alcohol content of a liquid, ranging from 0° to 175° in the UK, and from 0° to 200° in the U.S.
  • Degree of curvature
    Degree of curvature
    Degree of curve or degree of curvature is a measure of curvature used in civil engineering for its easy use in layout surveying.A n-degree curve turns n degrees over some agreed-upon distance...

    , a unit of curvature measurement, used in civil engineering
  • Degrees of freedom (mechanics), the number of displacements and/or rotations needed to define the position and orientation of a body
  • Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
    Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
    Degrees of freedom is a general term used in explaining dependence on parameters, and implying the possibility of counting the number of those parameters...

    , a concept describing dependence on a countable set of parameters
  • Degree of frost
    Degree of frost
    A degree of frost is a non-standard unit of measure for air temperature meaning degrees below melting point of water...

    , a unit of temperature measurement
  • Degree of unsaturation
    Degree of unsaturation
    The degree of unsaturation formula is used in organic chemistry to help draw chemical structures. The formula lets the user determine how many rings, double bonds, and triple bonds are present in the compound to be drawn...

    , in organic chemistry, also known as the index of hydrogen deficiency or rings plus double bonds

In mathematics

  • Degree (mathematics)
    Degree (mathematics)
    In mathematics, there are several meanings of degree depending on the subject.- Unit of angle :A degree , usually denoted by ° , is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1⁄360 of a full rotation...

    , with several meanings
  • Degree of a polynomial
    Degree of a polynomial
    When a polynomial is expressed as a sum or difference of terms , the exponent of the term with the highest exponent is the degree of the polynomial. The degree of a term is the sum of the powers of each variable in the term. The words degree and order are used interchangeably.For example, the...

    , the exponent of the term with the highest exponent
  • Degree of a field extension
    Degree of a field extension
    In mathematics, more specifically field theory, the degree of a field extension is a rough measure of the "size" of the extension. The concept plays an important role in many parts of mathematics, including algebra and number theory — indeed in any area where fields appear prominently.-...

  • Degree (graph theory)
    Degree (graph theory)
    In graph theory, the degree of a vertex of a graph is the number of edges incident to the vertex, with loops counted twice. The degree of a vertex is denoted The maximum degree of a graph G, denoted by Δ, is the maximum degree of its vertices, and the minimum degree of a graph, denoted by δ, is...

    , or valency, the number of edges incident to a vertex of a graph
  • Degree of a continuous mapping
    Degree of a continuous mapping
    In topology, the term degree is applied to continuous maps between manifolds of the same dimension. The degree of a map can be defined in terms of homology groups or, for smooth maps, in terms of preimages of regular values. It is a generalization of winding number. For example, consider the map...

  • Degrees of freedom (statistics)
    Degrees of freedom (statistics)
    In statistics, the number of degrees of freedom is the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.Estimates of statistical parameters can be based upon different amounts of information or data. The number of independent pieces of information that go into the...

    , the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary

In education

  • Academic degree
    Academic degree
    A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study.- History :...

    , an academic award or title, including:
    • Foundation degree
      Foundation degree
      The Foundation Degree is a vocational qualification introduced by the government of the United Kingdom in September 2001, which is available in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...

    • Associate's degree
      Associate's degree
      An associate degree is an academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, four-year universities, business colleges and some bachelor's degree-granting colleges/universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years....

    • Bachelor's degree
      Bachelor's degree
      A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

    • Master's degree
      Master's degree
      A master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

    • Doctorate
      Doctorate
      A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession . The best-known example...

    • Engineer's degree
      Engineer's degree
      An engineer's degree refers to a various number of academic degrees relating to engineering:-In Europe:In Europe, it can be an approximately five-year degree roughly equivalent to a master's degree....

    • Specialist degree
      Specialist degree
      -The Specialist degree in the Commonwealth of Independent States:The specialist degree was also the only first degree in the former Soviet Union. In the early 1990s bakalavr and magistr degrees were introduced in all the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, except in Turkmenistan...

    • Ad eundem degree
      Ad eundem degree
      An ad eundem degree is a courtesy degree awarded by one university or college to an alumnus of another.Before the advent of modern means of transportation had shrunk the world, it was common, when a graduate from one American college moved into the neighborhood of another, for his new college to...

    • Honorary degree
      Honorary degree
      An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university has waived the usual requirements...

    • Lambeth degree
      Lambeth degree
      Lambeth degrees are academic degrees conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury under the authority of the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533 as successor of the papal legate in England...

    • External degree
      External degree
      An external degree is a degree offered by a university to students who have not attended the institution. These undergraduates may be called external students and may study at classes unconnected with the university, or independently, or by distance learning...

  • Vocational degree, an award in vocational education

Other measures

  • Degree (music)
    Degree (music)
    In music theory, a scale degree is the name of a particular note of a scale in relation to the tonic...

    , 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
  • The positive
    Positive (linguistics)
    Positive is the form of an adjective or adverb on which comparative and superlative are formed with suffixes -ier, -lier, -iest, or -liest, or the forms more/less for polysyllabic adjectives/adverbs. In English, good is a positive adjectival form corresponding to the comparative better and the...

    , comparative
    Comparative
    In grammar, the comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb which denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another, and is used in this context with a subordinating conjunction, such as than,...

    , and superlative
    Superlative
    In grammar the superlative of an adjective or adverb is the greatest form of adjective or adverb which indicates that something has some feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to in a given context...

     degrees, in linguistics (e.g. "good", "better", and "best", respectively)
  • Consanguinity
    Consanguinity
    Consanguinity refers to the property of being from the same lineage as another person. In that respect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person...

    , or level of kinship
  • The severity of a crime, e.g., first degree murder
  • The intensity of a burn
    Burn (injury)
    A burn is a type of injury that may be caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction. Burns can be highly variable in terms of the tissue affected, the severity, and resultant complications. Muscle, bone, blood vessel, dermal and epidermal tissue can all be damaged with...

    , ranging from first degree to third degree
  • A level of initiation
    Initiation
    Initiation is a rite of passage ceremony marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components...

    , often used in fraternal organizations
  • A ranking of black belt
    Black belt (martial arts)
    The term black belt has become widely known as a way to describe an expert in martial artswhere a practitioner's level is often marked by the color of the belt. The black belt is commonly the highest belt color used and denotes a high degree of competence, and often associated with a teaching grade...

    , in certain martial arts