Degrees

What do we mean by degrees?

A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)

A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.

A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.

The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.

The dimensionality of a field extension.

The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.

The number of logical connectives in a formula.

The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.

A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.

(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.

(obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.

(genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.

One's relative state or experience; way, manner.

The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.

Words that are spelled similarly to degrees:
degrees, degree, degreed, decrees.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word degrees:
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Words that rhyme with degrees:
disease, cheese, ease, freeze, expertise, seize, tease, reprise, squeeze, breeze, please, appease, mores, geez, parentheses, analyses, overseas, chinese, lees, these, sease, feces, indices, trees, frieze, japanese, wheeze, diocese, sneeze, jeez, keys, peas, chemise, socrates, skis, sleaze, trapeze, siamese, idiosyncrasies, hercules, isosceles, knees, maltese, bees, seas, cantonese, manganese, pleiades, niese, unease, portuguese, fees, damocles, hypotheses, belize, blue cheese, ill at ease, testes, tees, chese, attendees, leas, munchies, pease, louise, goat cheese, headcheese, antifreeze, reis, sees, striptease, burmese, fleas, maccabees, displease, sinhalese, pleas, taiwanese, oversees, dees, creaze, journalese, pcs, balinese, aziz, agrees, emphases, bes, javanese, feaze, teas, actuaries, flees, guarantees, tweeze, rameses, cadiz, at ease, hyades, seese.

Adjectives that are often used to describe degrees:
different, various, few, several, many, higher, slow, honorary, high, advanced, greater, variable, lesser, academic, graduate, minor, professional, relative, electrical, undergraduate, terminal, imperceptible, moderate, internal, severe, medical, equal, highest, mild, intermediate, extreme, insensible, rotational, one, postgraduate, varied, slight, milder, respective, unequal, infinite, square, corresponding, associate, year, comparative, vibrational, discrete, translational, successive, fewer, angular, inferior, comparable, lowest, marked, gradual, slighter, equivalent.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective degrees:
freedom, box, figure, fig, fahrenheit, field, fahr, master, matter, cent.

Consonant match to degrees:
dog rose, dog-rose, day grows.

Words that sound like degrees:
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