1. A position on a scale of intensity, amount or quality
   "it is all a matter of degree";
   - grade, level
    
2. A specific identifiable position in a continuum, series or especially in a process
   "a remarkable degree of frankness";
   - level, stage, point, phasis, phase
    
3. A measure for arcs and angles
   "there are 360 degrees in a circle";
   - arcdegree
    
4. 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";
   - academic degree
    
5. The highest power of a term or variable
   "In the equation xdegree3 + 2xdegree2 + 4x + 1, the highest degree is 3"
    
6. A unit of temperature on a specified scale
   "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
    
7. The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
   "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"

Derived forms: degrees

See also: high, intense, low, mild

Type of: accolade, angular unit, award, exponent, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], index, laurels, magnitude, power, property, state, temperature unit

Part of: oxtant, sextant

Encyclopedia: Degree