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

[ Syn: 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?

[ Syn: level , stage , point ]

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

[ Syn: academic degree ]

a measure for arcs and angles; there are 360 degrees in a circle

[ Syn: arcdegree ]

the highest power of a term or variable

a unit of temperature on a specified scale; the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature'

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