OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5503

degree

/dɪˈɡɹiː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
diploma • título
A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.
grado
A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.
Most humans have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees.
grado
The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.
grado
The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection…
To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?
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