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degree   (TTS Sound)

The noun degree has 7 senses

• degree, grade, level -- (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree")


• degree, level, stage, point -- (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?")


• academic degree, degree -- (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")


• degree, arcdegree -- (a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle")


• degree -- (the highest power of a term or variable)


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


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