degree

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
    — She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.
  2. A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
    — A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.
  3. A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
    — 212 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 100 degrees Celsius.
  4. The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
    — A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.
  5. The dimensionality of a field extension.
    — The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.
  6. The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
  7. The number of logical connectives in a formula.
  8. The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
  9. A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
  10. Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
  11. A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
  12. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
    — The chazzan-artist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Eastern Europe where the chazzan reached the highest degree as an artist, casting from himself all those tasks historically associated with his office which drew him down to the station of beadle and servitor of the community.
  13. A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
    — And they axed hym ſayinge: Maſter / we knowe that thou ſayest / and teacheſt ryght / nether conſidereſt thou eny mãnes degre / but teacheſt the waye of god truely.
  14. A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
    — Louis created the École militaire in Paris in 1751, in which 500 scholarships were designated for noblemen able to prove four degrees of noble status.
  15. One's relative state or experience; way, manner. archaic
    — If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
  16. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
    — To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?

词形变化

degrees plural

词汇关系

近义词
compass degree grade level magnitude scale
下位词
amplitude breadth caliber depth height intensity pitch range reach shade strength
衍生词
180-degree rule 22-degree halo 360-degree 360 degree feedback 45-degree rule academic degree advanced degree arts degree associate degree associate's degree bachelor degree bachelor's degree bidegree codegree combined degree comparative degree crank angle degree degree absolute degree Celsius degree centigrade degreed degree-day degree day degree days degree Fahrenheit degree Kelvin degreeless degree mill degree of comparison degree of freedom degree of frost degree of glory degree of ionization degree of polymerization degree place degree Rankine degree sequence double degree drinking man's degree dual degree equative degree first-degree first-degree burn first-degree murder first-degree relative forbidden degree foundation degree fourth-degree fourth-degree burn gram degree gramme degree honorary degree honorary master's degree honors degree honours degree hyperdegree in-degree indegree Lambeth degree Levitical degree master's degree Mickey Mouse degree microdegree millidegree Mrs. degree multidegree murder in the first degree murder in the second degree nondegree out-degree outdegree pass degree positive degree predegree sandwich degree scale degree second-degree second-degree burn second-degree murder second-degree relative square degree subdegree superlative degree thick sandwich degree thin sandwich degree third degree third-degree third-degree burn third-degree murder third-degree relative to a degree to the nth degree transcendence degree Turing degree
相关词
successor astronomical extreme high moderate average intermediate underaverage subaverage low small very low near zero infinitesimal zero negative extremely very moderately considerably nontrivially a little mildly slightly very slightly not not at all size value extent scope quantity Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 26. Degree Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 31. Greatness Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 32. Smallness + = + +... = − = × = ÷ = √ = log(base) =
并列词
scale

词源

From Middle English degre, borrowed from Old French degré (French: degré), itself from Latin gradus, with the prefix de-.
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