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Type Words
Synonyms level, point, stage
Type of state
Has types ultimacy, ultimateness, extent, quickening, resultant, acme, standard of life, standard of living, state of the art, summit, height, superlative, tiptop, top, ladder, living standards, meridian, end point, elevation, climax, peak, pinnacle, plane


a remarkable degree of frankness.
Type Words
Synonyms arcdegree
Type of angular unit


there are 360 degrees in a circle.
Type Words
Synonyms academic degree
Type of laurels, honor, honour, award, accolade
Has types honours degree, associate degree, honours, baccalaureate, honorary degree, honoris causa, bachelor's degree, doctor's degree, doctorate, master's degree, law degree, associate


he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude.
Type Words
Synonyms grade, level
Type of property
Has types sun protection factor, amplitude level, caliber, calibre, depth, extreme, grind, high, highness, immoderateness, immoderation, intensity, intensiveness, low, lowness, moderateness, moderation, quality, spf


it is all a matter of degree.
Type Words
Type of temperature unit
Has types c, f, degree fahrenheit, degree celsius, degree centigrade


the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature.
Type Words
Type of exponent, index, power
Has types degree of a term, degree of a polynomial, first degree
Type Words
Type of magnitude


murder in the second degree.
a second degree burn.

Examples of degree

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The degree of secrecy has spawned the appearance of discrimination or collusion.
From the stltoday.com
You can sell a security back to the market, but you can't sell your degree back.
From the forbes.com
Today most need a paramedics certificate, the equivalent of an associate degree.
From the sacbee.com
Stephen E. Morfin, 20, faces trial April 27 for second-degree attempted assault.
From the thenewstribune.com
He got a law degree and, later, a job clerking at a firm in Southern California.
From the washingtontimes.com
He completed his undergraduate degree at UCLA, and has also studied film at NYU.
From the denverpost.com
Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven 35 to 40 minutes, until top is golden brown.
From the dailynews.com
He earned an international law degree at New York University Law School in 1974.
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Most offer low costs, lots of educational tools and some degree of hand-holding.
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  • A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "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; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?"
  • Academic degree: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude"
  • A measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle"
  • The highest power of a term or variable
  • A unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
  • The degree of an algebraic variety in mathematics is defined, for a projective variety V, by an elementary use of intersection theory.
  • A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by u00B0 (the degree symbol), is a measurement of plane angle, defined by representing a full rotation as 360 degrees.
  • In topology, the degree is a numerical invariant that describes a continuous mapping between two compact oriented manifolds of the same dimension. Intuitively, the degree represents the number of times that the domain manifold wraps around the range manifold under the mapping. ...