degree

nouns

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, grade, level
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?"
degree, level, point, stage
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, degree
a measure for arcs and angles
"there are 360 degrees in a circle"
arcdegree, degree
the highest power of a term or variable
degree
is a type of (narrower)
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
exponent, index, power
a unit of temperature on a specified scale
"the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
degree
is a type of (narrower)
a unit of measurement for temperature
temperature unit
the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
"murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
degree
is a type of (narrower)
the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
"they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"
magnitude