Degree
 

degree
noun1.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"2.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?"3.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]4.a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle"5.the highest power of a term or variable6.a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"7.the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"