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/grˈædʒuˌeɪtɪd/ /grˈædʒəwˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

adjective

Graduated adj.

Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

(Zool.) Tapered; said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.

Having visible marks and numbers at vertical intervals, permitting one to estimate the quantitity of material contained; of vessels, most commonly those used in laboratories for containing liquids. See graduated cylinder, etc., below.

Graduated cylinder, Graduated flask, Graduated tube, Graduated bottle, Graduated cap, Graduated glass a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels.

Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.

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Etymology of 'Graduated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Graduated" Quotes from Famous Books

... graduated difference, in these cross-bred animals having different proportions of Southdown blood, we see how strictly the two periods of gestation have been transmitted. Nathusius remarks that, as Southdowns grow with remarkable rapidity after birth, it is not surprising that ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin

... mind," said Flannery, when the professor had left, "that th' professor has a whole college of thim educated insects, an' that he do be lettin' thim have a vacation. Or mebby th' class of 1907 is graduated an' turned loose from th' university. I had th' base-ball team an' th' football gang spendin' th' night ...

— Mike Flannery On Duty and Off • Ellis Parker Butler

... be getting stuck on myself if you encourage me like that," he said, and then, his face falling, he added, "Biker graduated at Princeton." ...

— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... ground behind each machine? That is the cable by which the force is supplied. Observe those posts at regular intervals about the field. It is only necessary to attach one of those cables to a post to have a power which, connected with any sort of agricultural machine, furnishes energy graduated from a man's strength to that of a hundred horses, and requiring for its guidance no other force than the fingers ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... man whom we will call Richard. He had a well-to- do father and was sent to college. When he graduated, his father, a pious man, wished him to study for the ministry. He objected, saying his health was poor. He wished to go into the mountains, he lived in the ...

— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin

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