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Graduated   /grˈædʒuˌeɪtɪd/  /grˈædʒəwˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Graduated

adjective
1.
Marked with or divided into degrees.  Synonym: calibrated.
2.
Taking place by degrees.  Synonyms: gradational, gradatory.


Graduate

verb
(past & past part. graduated; pres. part. graduating)
1.
Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies.
2.
Confer an academic degree upon.
3.
Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring.  Synonyms: calibrate, fine-tune.  "Graduate a cylinder"



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"Graduated" Quotes from Famous Books



... certain degree of resemblance, including, as mentioned above, all the forms which may be produced by the same parents, or which are merely stages in the life of the individual. There are cases in which the limits of species or the boundaries between them are indistinct, where there is a graduated series of differences through a wide range of structure, but these cases are the exception; usually there are a vast majority of individuals which belong distinctly to one species or another, while intermediate ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... They generally graduated into district-messenger boys, and occasionally returned to us in blue coats with ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... the little handle over the graduated dial. A minute passed during which, so far as Ned could see, nothing happened. Without warning the green crystal suddenly glowed brightly for a fraction of a second, then could not be seen at all. The polished ring of ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... and excommunication of its doughty true-blue Presbyterian minister, the Rev. William Spence, M.A., though it was not till he had been removed from his living that the really romantic part of his career began. He had graduated at St. Andrews in 1654, and after some years of schoolmastering[11] and probationership he was, in 1664, duly admitted on the new Black Prelatic conditions to the parish of Glendevon. Under the ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various
... floor those terrible six bottles which had been the special subjects of her husband's precautionary instructions on his death-bed. Some of them were smaller than others, and were manufactured in glass of different colors—the six compartments in the medicine-chest being carefully graduated in size, so as to hold them all steadily. The labels on three of the bottles were unintelligible to Madame Fontaine; the inscriptions were written in barbarously ...
— Jezebel • Wilkie Collins


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