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The word degree may refer to:

Science

• Degree (angle), a unit of angle measurement
• Degree (temperature), a unit of temperature measurement
• Degree (symbol), a notation used in science, engineering and mathematics
• Degree of curvature, a unit of curvature measurement
• Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually symbolized °, is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1／360 of a full rotation. ... This article describes degree as a unit of temperature. ... This article describes the typographical or mathematical symbol. ... Degree of curve or degree of curvature is a measure of curvature used in civil engineering for its easy use in layout surveying. ... // Degrees of freedom in mechanics In mechanics, for each particle belonging to a system, and for each independent direction in which movement is possible, two degrees of freedom, are defined, one describing the particles momentum in that direction, the other describing the particles position along an axis defined...

Mathematics

• Degree (mathematics), any of several meanings:
  • Degree of a polynomial
  • Degree (graph theory)
  • Degree (continuous map)
  • Degrees of freedom (statistics)
  • Degrees of freedom (engineering)

This article is about the term degree as used in mathematics. ... The degree of a term of a polynomial in one variable is the exponent on the variable in that term; the degree of a polynomial is the maximum of the degrees of all terms in the polynomial. ... In the mathematical field of graph theory the degree or valency of a vertex v is the number of edges incident to v (with loops being counted twice). ... In topology, the term degree is applied to continuous maps between manifolds of the same dimension. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering and robotics, degrees of freedom (DOF) describes flexibility of motion. ...

Education

• Academic degree, an academic award or title requiring a longer study period than a diploma
  • Foundation degree
  • Associate's degree
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Master's degree
  • Doctorate degree
  • Engineer's degree
  • Specialist degree
  • ad eundem degree
  • Honorary degree
  • Lambeth degree
  • University of Oxford degrees
  • External degree

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 Foundation Degree is a vocational qualification introduced by the UK government in September 2001. ... An associates degree is a degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges and some bachelors degree-granting colleges and universities in Canada and the United States upon completion of a course of study equivalent to the first two years in a four-year college or university. ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... A doctorate is an academic degree of the highest level. ... An engineers degree can be a postgraduate academic degree which is intermediate in rank between a masters degree and a doctorate (US engineers degree), or its a postgraduate or first degree, equivalent to a masters degree. ... The Specialist Degree is most often found in programs in specialized education and is awarded for study beyond the masters degree but below the doctorate. ... An ad eundem degree is a courtesy degree awarded by one university or college to an alumnus of another. ... An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is an extra-ordinary academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ... Lambeth degrees are academic degrees awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury, under the authority of the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533 (25 Hen VIII c 21) (Eng). ... This article concerns the Degrees of Oxford University. ... External Degree, an academic degree awarded to nonresident students, who spend little or no time in formal classes. ...

Music

• Degree (music)

In music theory, a scale degree is the name of a particular note of a scale in relation to the tonic (the first note in the scale). ...

Law

In some jurisdictions, the severity of similar crimes — for example:

• first degree murder

Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident. ...

Medicine

• the intensity of a burn (from first degree to third degree)

It has been suggested that Cold burn be merged into this article or section. ...

Grammar

• the comparative degree and the superlative degree (good, better, best)

In grammar the comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb which denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another. ... In grammar, the superlative of an adjective or adverb indicates that a member of a set transcends the other members in some way. ...

Family

• the level of kinship - see consanguinity

Consanguinity, literally meaning common blood, describes how close a person is related to another in the sense of a family. ...

Intellectual property

• the Degree of inventiveness

Level of Invention or Degree of Inventiveness or Level of Solution is degree of an solution of inventive problem (one containing a contradiction) defined and introduced by TRIZ author G. S. Altshuller. ...

Fraternal and service organizations

• the levels of advancement within certain organizations, such as Freemasonry and the Knights of Columbus

This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Knights of Columbus marching in a St. ...

Commerce

• Degree, a brand of antiperspirant.