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Degree
Degree may refer to:
In education
• Academic degree, an academic rank, title or award,
As a unit of measurement including:
• Degree symbol, (°), a notation used in science, • Foundation degree
engineering and mathematics • Associate’s degree
• Degree (angle), a unit of angle measurement • Bachelor’s degree
• in geographic coordinate system • Master’s degree
• Degree (temperature), a unit of temperature • Doctorate
measurement • Engineer’s degree
• Degree API, a measure of density in the petroleum • Specialist degree
industry • Ad eundem degree
• Degree Baumé, a pair of density scales • Honorary degree
• Degree Brix, a measure of sugar concentration • Lambeth degree
• Degree Gay-Lussac, a measure of the alcohol content • External degree
of a liquid by volume, ranging from 0° to 100° • Vocational degree, an award in vocational education
• Degree proof, or simply proof, the alcohol content of
a liquid, ranging from 0° to 175° in the UK, and from
0° to 200° in the U.S.
Other measures
• Degree of curvature, a unit of curvature • Degree (music), identification of a note in a scale by
measurement, used in civil engineering its relation to the tonic
• Degrees of freedom (mechanics), the number of • Degree of inventiveness in inventions and patents
displacements and/or rotations needed to define the • Degree of separation in connectivity between groups
position and orientation of a body (first degree is closest)
• Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry), a • Degree of relationship, in kinship between
concept describing dependence on a countable set of individuals (first degree is closest)
parameters • Consanguinity, or level of kinship
• Degree of frost, a unit of temperature measurement • The positive, comparative, and superlative degrees,
• Degree of unsaturation, in organic chemistry, also in linguistics (e.g. "good", "better", and "best",
known as the index of hydrogen deficiency or rings respectively)
plus double bonds • The severity of a crime, e.g., first degree murder (first
• dGH, degrees of general hardness of water degree is worst)
• Degree of carbonate hardness of water (degree KH) • The intensity of a burn (the higher the worse)
• A level of initiation, often used in fraternal
organizations
In mathematics • A ranking of black belt, in certain martial arts
• Degree (mathematics), with several meanings
• Degree of a polynomial, the exponent of the term
with the highest exponent
Other uses
• Degree of a field extension • Degree (deodorant), a brand of antiperspirant
• The degree of an algebraic number field, its degree • degree (freemasonry)
as a field extension of the rational numbers • degree of Knights Templar (Freemasonry), a special
• Degree (graph theory), or valency, the number of case of a degree in freemasonry
edges incident to a vertex of a graph
• Degree of a continuous mapping
• Degrees of freedom (statistics), the number of values
in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to
vary
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