degree

degree is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A step, stair, or staircase. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A step, stair, or staircase.
2. noun. One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
3. noun. The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
4. noun. Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.
5. noun. Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.
6. noun. A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.
7. noun. Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
8. noun. State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.
9. noun. A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.
10. noun. A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
11. noun. A line or space of the staff.
12. noun. a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

    "a moderate grade of intelligence"

    "a high level of care is required"

    Synonyms: grade, level

13. noun. the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)

    "murder in the second degree"

    "a second degree burn"

14. noun. the highest power of a term or variable
15. noun. 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"

16. noun. a measure for arcs and angles

    "there are 360 degrees in a circle"

    Synonyms: arcdegree

17. noun. a unit of temperature on a specified scale

    "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"

18. noun. 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?"

    Synonyms: level, point, stage

Synonyms

grade, level, arcdegree, point, stage

Common word forms

degreed, degrees, degreeing, degreeless

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