degrees
学位,学历,度数,度
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Definitions
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- : any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale.
- : a stage or point in or as if in progression or retrogression: We followed the degrees of her recovery with joy.
- : a stage in a scale of intensity or amount: a high degree of mastery.
- : extent, measure, scope, or the like: To what degree will he cooperate?
- : a stage in a scale of rank or station; relative standing in society, business, etc.: His uncouth behavior showed him to be a man of low degree.
- : Education. an academic title conferred by universities and colleges as an indication of the completion of a course of study, or as an honorary recognition of achievement.
- : a unit of measure, as of temperature or pressure, marked off on the scale of a measuring instrument: This thermometer shows a scale of degrees between only 20° and 40° C.
- : Geometry. the 360th part of a complete angle or turn, often represented by the sign°, as in 45°, which is read as 45 degrees.Compare angle.
- : the distinctive classification of a crime according to its gravity: murder in the first degree.
- : Grammar. one of the parallel formations of adjectives and adverbs used to express differences in quality, quantity, or intensity. In English, low and careful are the positive degree, lower and more careful are the comparative degree, lowest and most careful are the superlative degree.
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Examples
They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
At that time, only 16 Congolese were known to have college degrees.
Detainees were hosed down while shackled naked, and placed in rooms with temperatures as low as 59 degrees Fahrenheit.
There are fans, but Hetflaisz never once saw an air-conditioning unit—and temperatures get up to 100 degrees.
Six months out of the year, the temperatures exceed 100 degrees.
It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before.
The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.
It is about three leagues wide and is forty-four and one half degrees from the Equator.
The fleet cannot see itself wiped out by degrees; and yet, without the fleet, how are we soldiers to exist?