Definition of degree

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Degree (n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison..

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Thermochrosy :: Thermochrosy (n.) The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances..
Hygrostatics :: Hygrostatics (n.) The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture.
Intensity :: Intensity (n.) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced..
Excellently :: Excellently (adv.) In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.
Blissful :: Blissful (a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree..
Mighty :: Mighty (n.) Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc..
Deepen :: Deepen (v. t.) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow..
Tetragon :: Tetragon (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle..
Valence :: Valence (n.) The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four..
Commencement :: Commencement (n.) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
So :: So (adv.) Very; in a high degree; that is, in such a degree as can not well be expressed; as, he is so good; he planned so wisely..
Octic :: Octic (n.) A quantic of the eighth degree.
Cementation :: Cementation (n.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand..
Graduated :: Graduated (a.) Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades..
Inexpiably :: Inexpiably (adv.) In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.
Squire :: Squire (n.) A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire..
Semisextile :: Semisextile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees..
Infinitesimally :: Infinitesimally (adv.) By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree.
Maximum :: Maximum (a.) Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat..
Viscount :: Viscount (a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3..
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