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degree

1. a stage in a scale of relative amount or intensity

2. an academic award conferred by a university or college on successful completion of a course or as an honorary distinction (honorary degree)

3. Med any of three categories of seriousness of a burn

4. (in the US) any of the categories into which a crime is divided according to its seriousness

5. Music any note of a diatonic scale relative to the other notes in that scale

6. a unit of temperature on a specified scale

7. Geometry a measure of angle equal to one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the angle traced by one complete revolution of a line about one of its ends.

8. Geography

a. a unit of latitude or longitude, divided into 60 minutes, used to define points on the earth's surface or on the celestial sphere

b. a point or line defined by units of latitude and/or longitude.

9. a unit on any of several scales of measurement, as for alcohol content or specific gravity.

10. Maths

a. the highest power or the sum of the powers of any term in a polynomial or by itself

b. the greatest power of the highest order derivative in a differential equation

11. degrees of frost See frost

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degree - The degree (or valency) of a node in a graph is the number of edges joined to it.