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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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Amongst our lowest orders, the vocal organs are developed to a degree more than correspondent with those of hearing, so that an Isosceles can easily feign the voice of a Polygon, and, with some training, that of a Circle himself. This island, lying near to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical miles below the equator. In the same degree as Cornelius de Witt had excited the hatred of the people by sowing those evil seeds which are called political passions, Van Baerle had gained the affections of his fellow citizens by completely shunning the pursuit of politics, absorbed as he was in the peaceful pursuit of cultivating tulips. |
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