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Encyclopedia > Grade
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Grade may refer to: Letter grade = 88 or Letter grade = 96, any grade is the level that you have in an educational subject Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ...

  • Grade separation, the process of aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights such that they do not disrupt the flow of traffic of one another when they cross

Use in technical measurements: In education, grade can mean either: a teachers standardized evaluation of a students work a students level of educational progress, usually one grade per year (often denoted by an ordinal number. ... A grade level is a numerical designation of the level or year a student has reached in school. ... rank. ... Civil Air Patrol seal The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). ... An example of a four-level stack interchange in the Netherlands. ...

  • Grade (slope), the pitch of a slope such as a hill or road
  • Ore grade, a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore
  • Property class, or "grades," which are certain size and strength requirements for nuts and bolts
  • Grade (angle), a unit for the measurement of plane angles
Fuel grade:
  • Cetane rating, a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality
  • Octane rating, the measure of the autoignition resistance of gasoline (petrol) and other fuels used in spark-ignition internal combustion engines
In Medicine:

In pure mathematics: A grade (or gradient) is the pitch of a slope, and is often expressed as a percent tangent, or rise over run. It is used to express the steepness of slope on a hill, roof, or road, where zero indicates level (with respect to gravity) and increasing numbers correlate to... Ore grade is a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material (such as metals or minerals) in its surrounding ore. ... There are three kinds of fastener given the name bolt. ... The grad is a measurement of plane angles of value 1/400 of a full circle, thus dividing a right angle in 100. ... Cetane number or CN is to diesel fuel what octane rating is to gasoline. ... A gas station pump offering five different octane ratings. ... In pathology, Grading is a measure of the progress of tumors. ...

Other uses: In mathematics, a graded vector space is a vector space with an extra piece of structure, known as a grading. ... In mathematics, in particular abstract algebra, a graded algebra is an algebra over a field with an extra piece of structure, known as a grading. ...

  • Grade (climbing), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill
  • Grade (bouldering), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a route which are distinct from those used in regular climbing

In mountaineering and related climbing sports, climbers give a climbing grade to a route that attempts to assess the difficulty and danger of climbing the route. ... In the sport of bouldering, problems are assigned technical grades according to several established systems, which are distinct from those used in regular climbing. ... // Introduction In telecommunication, the quality of voice service is specified by two measures: The GOS (grade of service) and the QoS (quality of service). ... Pattern grading is the scaling of a pattern to a different size by incrementing important points of the pattern using an algorithm in the clothing and footwear industry,. See also: Shoe size Categories: | ... In Coin collecting, Coin grading is the process of determining the grade or condition of a coin, the key factor in its value as a collectors item. ... Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture or television image, either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally. ... Grade was a band playing out of Burlington, Ontario. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... In phylogenetics, a grouping of organisms is said to be paraphyletic (Greek para = near and phyle = race) if the group contains the most recent common ancestor of its members, but the group does not include all the descendants of this common ancestor. ...

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