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degree [n]

1)	a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate degree of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"

Synonyms :

grade level

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magnitude high low mild intense caliber intensity depth high low extreme amplitude_level moderateness immoderateness

2)	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?"

Synonyms :

level point stage

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state ladder acme extent end_point standard_of_life plane state_of_the_art ultimacy quickening climax

3)	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"

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academic_degree

4)	a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"

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temperature_unit c degree_fahrenheit

5)	a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle"

Synonyms :

arcdegree

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angular_unit oxtant sextant quadrant arcminute

6)	the highest power of a term or variable

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7)	the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"

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magnitude

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

The degree (or valency) of a node in a graph is the number of edges joined to it.

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