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Meaning in simple English
US /dɪˈɡriː/
degree means: A unit used to measure how hot or cold something is.
noun
TEMPERATURE UNITA2
A unit used to measure how hot or cold something is.
- It is twenty degrees outside.
- The temperature fell by five degrees.
- Heat the oven to two hundred degrees Celsius.
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONB1
A qualification you receive after successfully completing a course of study at a university or college.
- He wants to get a degree.
- She earned her degree last year.
- Does this job require a university degree?
ANGLE UNITB1
A unit for measuring angles; a full circle contains 360 of these units.
- A right angle measures ninety degrees.
- Turn the handle through forty-five degrees.
- This angle is one degree smaller than that one.
AMOUNTB2
The amount or strength of a quality, feeling, or condition.
- The tasks have different degrees of difficulty.
- Everyone needs some degree of privacy.
- To what degree did the changes help?
INDUSTRIAL MEASUREC2
A unit used in production to measure qualities such as how bitter, dark, or dense something is.
- The juice measured twelve degrees Brix.
- The brewer recorded the density in degrees Plato.
- This liquid measures ten degrees Baumé.
VERTEX CONNECTIONSC2
The number of edges connected to a particular point in a graph or solid shape.
- This vertex has degree three.
- Each corner of the cube has degree three.
- Calculate the degrees of all the vertices.
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