DEGREES
- measure of damage to tissue caused by injury or disease compare first-degree burn second-degree burn third-degree burn
- legal measure of guilt or negligence found guilty of robbery in the first degree
- title conferred on students by a college, university, or professional school on completion of a program of study
- grade of membership attained in a ritualistic order or society
- academic title conferred to honor distinguished achievement or service
- unit of measure for angles equal to an angle with its vertex at the center of a circle and its sides cutting off 1/360 of the circumference
- unit of measure for arcs of a circle equal to the amount of arc that subtends a central angle of one degree
- position or space on the earth or in the heavens as measured by degrees of latitude
- step, note, or tone of a musical scale
- line or space of the musical staff
- a step or stage in a process, course, or order of classification advanced by degrees
- particular standing especially as to dignity or worth
- rank or grade of official, ecclesiastical, or social position people of low degree
- DEGREE, one of a series of stages [n]
- DEGREE, a graduation on a scale [n]
- step in a direct line of descent or in the line of ascent to a common ancestor
- member of a series arranged in steps