| degree | a qualification awarded after satisfactory completion of and achievement in a programme of advanced study taught mainly by people engaged in research and which emphasises general principles and basic knowledge as the basis for self-directed work | en |
| degree | the title officially conferred upon a student for the successful completion of a given curriculum or program | en |
| degree | A unit of angular measure represented by the symbol o The circumference of a circle contains 360 degrees When applied to the roughly spherical shape of the Earth for geographic and cartographic purposes, degrees are each divided into 60 minutes | en |
| degree | Educational recognition given for the successful completion of three to four years (full-time) study at a university, university college, or college However, diploma holders may be able to complete a degree in as little time as two years Provides increased career preparation for more career and employment opportunities (especially "Applied Degree Programs") | en |
| degree | An award, made on completion of a programme defined in terms of appropriate numbers and levels of credits, which is recognised as a "degree" in University legislation and in national qualifications frameworks and which is conferred at a University Degree Congregation | en |
| degree | A degree is an official college recognition for the completion of requirements for graduation At FLC/EDC Cosumnes River College you may receive an Associate of Science (AS) for majors technical/vocational subject areas or an Associate of Arts (AA) in other majors Upon completion of all requirements for the degree a petition for graduation must be completed with a counselor | en |
| degree | One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison | en |
| degree | Qualification awarded after the successful completion of undergraduate study BA (Bachelor of Arts) for a first degree in Arts and BSc (Bachelor of Science) for a first degree in Science, are the two most common undergraduate degrees Degrees can be studied as a single subject (single honours), two subjects (joint honours) or two or three subjects (combined honours) Click here for more information | en |
| degree | The degree of an equation or polynomial is derived from the term of the highest degree For example: y=mx+y is of degree 1, while y=x2 and x=2xy+y=0 are degree 2 | en |
| degree | The title of the award conferred on students by a college, university, or professional school upon completion of a unified program of study (i e , Bachelor of Arts-B A ; Bachelor of Science-B S ; Master of Science-M S ; Master of Fine Arts-M F A ; Doctor of Philosophy-Ph D , etc ) | en |
| degree | rank, extent; unit of measurement of angles; unit of measurement of temperature; academic title received after completing a program of studies at a university or college isim | en |
| degree | The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree | en |
| degree | the highest power of a term or variable a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle" | en |
| degree | Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc | en |
| degree | The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position | en |
| degree | Either the exponent of a power function or the highest power in a polynomial function For example, the degree of f(x) = -4x5 is 5, while the degree of h(x) = 5 - x + 4x3 - 7x2 is 3 | en |
| degree | 1) An angular measurement A complete circle is divided into 360 degrees; equal to one crankshaft rotation; 180 degrees is one-half rotation 2) A temperature measurement The temperatures of boiling and freezing water are: in the Fahrenheit system 212 and 32 degrees; in the Celsius system 100 and 0 (zero) degrees | en |
| degree | An academic award that a learner earns after completing a program of study See also "bachelor's degree" "masters degree" and "doctoral degree" | en |
| degree | A unit for measuring an angle or an arc of a circle A circle is divided into 360 degrees Degrees, when applied to the roughly spherical shape of the Earth for geographic and cartographic purposes, are each divided into 60 minutes | en |
| degree | A title or rank conferred by the institution upon successful completion of the prescribed program of study | en |
| degree | A degree at a university or college is a course of study that you take there, or the qualification that you get when you have passed the course. He took a master's degree in economics at Yale. the first year of a degree course. see also first-degree, second-degree, third-degree | en |
| degree | An award conferred by a college, university, or other postsecondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of studies | en |
| degree | the seriousness of something (e g , a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn" | en |
| degree | vagueness You use expressions such as to what degree and to the degree that when you are discussing how true a statement is, or in what ways it is true. To what degree would you say you had control over things that went on? = to what extent, to the extent that | en |
| degree | A degree is a unit of measure The sky can be imagined as a sphere around Earth Like all circles, this sphere measures 360 degrees around The degree is a convenient unit telling how large something is, how far away one object is from another, how high something is above the horizon, etc The apparent size of constellations, very large deep-sky objects, and other large scale objects such as the moon and bright comet tails, are given in degrees For example, the Andromeda Galaxy is 3 degrees in diameter, and the moon is 1/2 of a degree across The symbol for a degree is the same a a temperature degree, a small circle: 1 degree = 1° | en |
| degree | A step, stair, or staircase | en |
| degree | You use degree to indicate the extent to which something happens or is the case, or the amount which something is felt. These man-made barriers will ensure a very high degree of protection Politicians have used television with varying degrees of success. If something has a degree of a particular quality, it has a small but significant amount of that quality. Their wages do, however, allow them a degree of independence | en |
| degree | vagueness You use expressions such as to some degree, to a large degree, or to a certain degree in order to indicate that something is partly true, but not entirely true. These statements are, to some degree, all correct | en |
| degree | If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually. The crowd in Robinson's Coffee-House was thinning, but only by degrees. = gradually | en |
| degree | A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree | en |
| degree | the seriousness of something e | en |
| degree | a burn or crime; "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn" the highest power of a term or variable a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle" a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature" 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? | en |
| degree | A unit of angular measure A circle is divided into 360 degrees, represented by the symbol ° Degrees, when applied to the roughly spherical shape of the Earth for geographic and cartographic purposes, are each divided into 60 minutes, represented by the symbol ' Thus, 1°=60' | en |
| degree | 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" | en |
| degree | A unit of angular measure A circle is divided into 360 degrees, represented by the symbol o Degrees, when applied to the roughly spherical shape of the Earth for geographic and cartographic purposes, are each divided into 60 minutes Each minute has 60 seconds Degrees on a map help us locate places | en |
| degree | The academic credential conferred upon a student who has completed a given course of study The three types of degrees are Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees, and Doctoral degrees | en |
| degree | 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? | en |
| degree | In algebra, the degree of a polynomial is the highest power of the variable in the polynomial For example, 4x3 + 3x2y + y2 + 7 has degree 3 The zero polynomial has undefined degree | en |
| degree | State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree | en |
| degree | A unit used in the measurement of angles, heavily used particularly in astronomy Due to ancient Babylonian mathematics, we still divide a circle into 360 even units of arc and call each of these units one degree The entire sky, therefore, spans 360 degrees Up to about 180 degrees of sky is visible from any given point on earth with an unobstructed horizon (as measured from, say, east to west, or north to south) The degree is used to make measurements of distance, or position (as with declination) in astronomy In turn, a degree is composed of 60 minutes of arc, and also of 360 seconds of arc | en |
| degree | a burn or crime; "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn" | en |
| degree | The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds | en |
| degree | A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer | en |
| degree | a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle" | en |
| degree | a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate degree of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" | en |
| degree | A unit of angular measurement There are 360 degrees in a full circle The view of the sky with unobstructed horizons is 180 (e g , from north to south or east to west) There are 60 arc minutes in a degree and 3600 arc seconds Adegreee also uses the notation of a raised circle, e g , 5 degrees = 5° | en |
| degree | A unit of angular measure: A circle is divided into 360 degrees, represented by the symbol o Degrees are used to divide the roughly spherical shape of the Earth for geographic and cartographic purposes | en |
| degree | a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature" | en |
| degree | An award conferred by a college, university, or other post-secondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of studies | en |
| degree | Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree | en |
| degree | A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles | en |
| degree | Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees | en |
| degree | The degree (or valence) of a vertex is the number of edge ends at that vertex For example, in this graph all of the vertices have degree three In a digraph (directed graph) the degree is usually divided into the in-degree and the out-degree (whose sum is the degree of the vertex in the underlying undirected graph) | en |
| degree | the highest power of a term or variable | en |
| degree | A degree is a unit of measurement that is used to measure temperatures. It is often written as °, for example 23°. It's over 80 degrees outside | en |
| degree | A degree is a unit of measurement that is used to measure angles, and also longitude and latitude. It is often written as °, for example 23°. It was pointing outward at an angle of 45 degrees | en |
| Degree | deg | en |
| degree | A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circles circumference | en |
| degree | Any of various units used to express specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing various commodities | en |
| degree | An award (generally superior to a diploma but inferior to a doctorate) bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as an indication of academic achievement or occasionally bestowed to honor its recipient | en |
| degree | The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; proportion or extent | en |
| degree | The number of edges that a vertex takes part in | en |
| degree | The sum of the exponents of a term; or, in the context of a polynomial, the highest degree of all its terms | en |
| degree | A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit | en |
| degrees | the unit for measuring distance on a map projection The actual distance can vary somewhat Since lines of longitude come together at the poles, the distance covered by each degree shrinks However, as lines of latitude at about the same distance apart, 1 degree of latitude varies only slightly 1 degree of latitude is about 111 km | en |
| degrees | The unit of measure when working with latitude and longitude | en |
| degrees | A system for measuring angles wherein a full circle is 360 0 degrees A value in degrees can be converted to radians by this formula: radians = degrees * 3 142 / 180 0 [see radians and rotation angle] | en |
| degrees | of freedom (1) For the chi-square distribution: An integer that determines which chi-square density, and hence which row of the Appendix C chi-square table, to use (2) For the t distribution: An integer that determines which t density, and hence which row of the Appendix F Student's t table, to use (3) For the F distribution: The integer that divides an ANOVA sum of squares to produce a corresponding index (such as the between-samples variability or the within- samples variability) that is independent of the number of observations and the number of populations being sampled from For the within-samples sum of squares and the between-samples sum of squares, such division allows use of the F distribution to do ANOVA in the case of sampling from normal populations The F distribution has a numerator and a denominator degrees of freedom that determine which F density, and hence which entries of the Appendix H F tables to use | en |
| degrees | The temperatures listed in this document are in degrees Kelvin If you live in the United States or England, for example, you may be more familiar with degrees Fahrenheit If you are from almost anywhere else in the world, you are probably more familiar with degrees centigrade | en |
| degrees | A circle is measured in units called degrees The entire circle is 360 degrees, half a circle is 180 degrees, and one quarter of a circle is 90 degrees The "L" shaped 90 degree circle forms what is called a right angle When examining circular objects, such as spinners, the size of each segment in the circle can be described in degrees (cf From Geometry to Probability Discussion) | en |
| degrees | Leading to a professional careers or post-graduate study, degrees can be studied on a full or part time basis They usually require previous education to at least A Level standard or equivalent (for example, GNVQ or National Diploma) | en |
| degrees | Levels of Initiation While various groups and traditions have different degree structures, the most common has four stages with approximately a year and a day between them These are: Dedicant - The stage prior to First-Degree initiation, when one has declared one's intention to study and progress to the level of Priest and Witch First Degree - The formal initiation as a Priest and Witch of a particular coven Second Degree - The intermediate step between Priest and High Priest This is the lowest level at which one is deemed capable of beginning to teach others the arts of Witchcraft while still under the supervision of a High Priest or High Priestess Third Degree - The highest level of initiation, when one is acknowledged as worthy of serving as High Priest or High Priest and able to independently operate a coven See Inner Court and Outer Court | en |
| degrees | - the unit of measurement used to measure an angle One full rotation is 360o | en |
| degrees | Initiatory process | en |
| degrees | plural of degree | en |