Meanings of the word "degree":
- 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 ...
- 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 seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
- In mathematics, there are several meanings of degree depending on the subject.
- A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study.
- The degree of an algebraic variety in mathematics is defined, for a projective variety V, by an elementary use of intersection theory.
- In music theory, a scale degree is the name of a particular note of a scale in relation to the tonic (the note of the scale that is considered the most important). ...
- The term degree is used in several scales of temperature. The symbol ° is usually used, followed by the initial letter of the unit, for example “°C” for degree(s) Celsius.
- Degree is a brand of antiperspirant for men and women that is manufactured by Unilever. It comes in stick, gel, and spray forms. It is the North American version (or 'sister' brand) of Sure in the United Kingdom and Rexona in the rest of the world.
- In graph theory, the degree (or valency) of a vertex of a graph is the number of edges incident to the vertex, with loops counted twice. ...
- In mathematics, more specifically in abstract algebra, field extensions are the main object of study in field theory. The general idea is to start with a base field and construct in some manner a larger field which contains the base field and satisfies additional properties.