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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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"Degree" Quotes from Famous Books

... to create. It may be that there are miracles which God performs through the ministry of angels, where the laws of Nature are not violated, any more than when men assist Nature by art, the skill of angels differing from ours only by degree of perfection. Nevertheless it still remains true that the laws of Nature are subject to be dispensed from by the Law-giver; whereas the eternal verities, as for instance those of geometry, admit no dispensation, and faith cannot contradict them. Thus it is that there cannot be any ...

— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz

... salutary in its results. Changes of real value were accomplished with a sparing employment of revolutionary means, and, in the more important cases, through the friendly co-operation of the sovereigns with their subjects. It was not the fault of those who had asked for the same degree of liberty in northern Germany which the south already possessed, that Germany at large again experienced the miseries of reaction and repression which had afflicted it ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... the reply; "and I think we will enjoy it in a greater degree than if we were surrounded by a crowd of distracting friends, though I believe it is usually considered the one time in a person's life when friends are most appreciated. Why it should be so I cannot see, if all ...

— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth

... past when all the knowledge the Hindu woman possessed consisted in the art of being graceful and the science of etiquette of their social world. Today the Hindu woman's mind is cultivated to a remarkable degree. Your son's wife was a highly educated girl. Her father and mother were of the Brahmin faith, but Father Leclerc had the joy of converting them to our own religion. Unfortunately, when a Hindu is converted to our religion he loses ...

— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot

... to say, that those letters which I wrote from this kingdom, nine or ten years ago, were of some use to you, in the little tour you made through France soon after, and as they have been considered in some degree to be so to many other persons, (since their publication) who were unacquainted with the manners and customs of the French nation, I shall endeavour to bring together, in this second correspondence with you, not only some of the former hints ...

— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 - Volume 1 (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse

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