单词 | degree |
释义 | Word Frequency degree(dɪˈɡriː) noun 1. a stage in a scale of relative amount or intensity a high degree of competence 2. an academic award conferred by a university or college on successful completion of a course or as an honorary distinction (honorary degree) 3. any of three categories of seriousness of a burn burn1 (sense 23)4. (in the US) any of the categories into which a crime is divided according to its seriousness first-degree murder 5. genealogy a step in a line of descent, used as a measure of the closeness of a blood relationship 6. grammar any of the forms of an adjective used to indicate relative amount or intensity: in English they are positive, comparative, and superlative 7. music any note of a diatonic scale relative to the other notes in that scale D is the second degree of the scale of C major 8. a unit of temperature on a specified scale the normal human body temperature is 36.8 degrees Celsius Symbol: °. See also Celsius scale, Fahrenheit scale 9. a measure of angle equal to one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the angle traced by one complete revolution of a line about one of its ends Symbol: °. See also minute1, second2 (sense 1a), Compare radian 10. a. a unit of latitude or longitude, divided into 60 minutes, used to define points on the earth's surface or on the celestial sphere b. Symbol: °a point or line defined by units of latitude and/or longitude 11. a unit on any of several scales of measurement, as for alcohol content or specific gravity Symbol: °12. mathematics a. the highest power or the sum of the powers of any term in a polynomial or by itself x4 + x + 3 and xyz2 are of the fourth degree b. the greatest power of the highest order derivative in a differential equation 13. obsolete a step; rung 14. archaic a stage in social status or rank 15. by degrees 16. to a degree 17. degrees of frost Derived forms degreeless (deˈgreeless) adjective Word origin C13: from Old French degre, from Latin de- + gradus step, grade |
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