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Graduated   /grˈædʒuˌeɪtɪd/  /grˈædʒəwˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Graduate  v. t.  (past & past part. graduated; pres. part. graduating)  
1.
To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
2.
To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
3.
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. "Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts."
4.
(Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.


Graduate  v. i.  
1.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
2.
(Zool.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
3.
To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. "He graduated at Oxford." "He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated."


adjective
Graduated  adj.  
1.
Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
2.
(Zool.) Tapered; said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
3.
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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"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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