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Graduation   /grˌædʒuˈeɪʃən/  /grˌædʒəwˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Graduation

noun
1.
The successful completion of a program of study.
2.
An academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred.  Synonyms: commencement, commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation exercise.
3.
A line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement.
4.
The act of arranging in grades.  Synonym: gradation.



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"Graduation" Quotes from Famous Books



... regulated by friction governor (Design Prof. Young.) Maintaining gears are provided on the main shaft which allows the winding of the clock without retarding motion. Worm wheel and worm are carefully cut, and protected by brass shields. Right ascension and declination circles have fine graduation on solid silver and coarse finding graduation on the edge. Electric illumination and magnifying glasses are fitted to the verniers. The handles for all clamps and slow motions are fastened conveniently near the eye end of the telescope and are ...
— Astronomical Instruments and Accessories • Wm. Gaertner & Co.

... Arrived in dock, the graduation exercises are held; and the graduates are assigned to such ships of the merchant navy as are in need ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 30, June 3, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

... partly for lack of skill with joinery tools. He now, however, had in Farrow at once a willing pupil and an artist, and the work went forward in Farrow's house, Miriam watching its progress with great interest. She could even contribute her share, and the graduation of the rim was left to her, a task she performed with accuracy after a few failures in pencil. It was a handsome instrument when it was completed. The relative distances of the planets from the sun could not be preserved, nor their relative magnitudes; but what was of more ...
— Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers - Gideon; Samuel; Saul; Miriam's Schooling; and Michael Trevanion • Mark Rutherford

... two weeks after graduation from Harvard, was pacing up and down the deck of Mr. Pierce's yacht, the "Sunrise," as she drifted with the tide in Long Island Sound. Yet if his expression, as he walked, could for a moment have been ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... exception. There was a sizzling paddock tip on The Cricket, a nervous brown mare which had twice finished second at the meeting, the last time missing her graduation by a nose; others had heard that Athelstan was "trying"; there was a rumour that Laredo was about to annex his first brackets; suspicion pointed to Miller Boy as likely to "do something," but nobody had heard any good news of General Duval. Those who looked ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan


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