Word Meaning

Meaning of "degrees" and the crossword clue

- Academic achievement
- Academic award
- An academic award
- Extent
- It marks the beginning of life as a bachelor
- Relative position
- Temperature unit
- Unit of heat
- Unit of measurement of angles
- Unit of scale in jade green
- University award
- What a bachelor has achieved to some extent?
- What a university student is aiming for
- Academic achievements
- Measures of latitude sought by students?
- Six ... of separation
- A step, stair, or staircase.
- 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.
- The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
- Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in 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.
- 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.
- Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
- 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. 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.
- A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.
- A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
- A line or space of the staff.