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Degree

noun

A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality. Synonyms: grade, level. "A high level of care is required" , "It is all a matter of degree"

A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process. Synonyms: level, point, stage. "At what stage are the social sciences?"

An award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study. Synonym: academic degree.

A measure for arcs and angles. Synonym: arcdegree.

The highest power of a term or variable.

A unit of temperature on a specified scale.

The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime). "A second degree burn"

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... the air becomes so saturated with the waste products of the lungs that it is no longer fit to breathe, and it is evident that in order to keep the air in a room so that it can be taken into the lungs with any reasonable degree of comfort, there must be a continual supply of fresh air admitted with a proper provision for discharging polluted air. If this is not done, there is, so far as the lungs are concerned, a process established similar ...

— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden

... during which Lady Eversleigh recovered in some degree from the painful emotion caused ...

— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... is most noble and of the greatest delicacy and knowledge. And what barbarous judge is there that cannot understand that the foot of a man is more noble than his shoe? His skin than that of the sheep from which his clothes are made? And who from this will proceed to find the merit and degree in everything? But I do not mean that, because a cat or a wolf is vile, the man who paints them skilfully has not as much merit as one who paints a horse, or the body of a lion, as even (as I have said above) in the simple shape ...

— Michael Angelo Buonarroti • Charles Holroyd

... us nothing less than the extension of our cognition beyond the limits of experience, is found, when thoroughly examined, to contain nothing but regulative principles, the virtue and function of which is to introduce into our cognition a higher degree of unity than the understanding could of itself. These principles, by placing the goal of all our struggles at so great a distance, realize for us the most thorough connection between the different parts of our cognition, and the highest degree of systematic ...

— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant

... be easily allowed that men of very great natural genius are for the most part exempt from a love of idleness, it ought also to be acknowledged that there are others to whom, indeed, nature has not been equally bountiful, but who possess a certain degree of talent which perseverance and study (if to study they would apply themselves) might gradually advance, and at last ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, - Issue 348, December 27, 1828 • Various

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