Degree

[dɪ'griː] or [dɪ'ɡri]

解释:

(noun.) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; 'a moderate grade of intelligence'; 'a high level of care is required'; 'it is all a matter of degree'.

(noun.) the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); 'murder in the second degree'; 'a second degree burn'.

(noun.) the highest power of a term or variable.

(noun.) a measure for arcs and angles; 'there are 360 degrees in a circle'.

(noun.) a unit of temperature on a specified scale; 'the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature'.

(noun.) 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?'.

录入:莱尔--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A step, stair, or staircase.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.

(n.) Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

(n.) A line or space of the staff.

编辑:凯利

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Step, stage.[2]. Class, rank, order, grade, quality, station, standing.[3]. Measure, extent.[4]. Remove (in the line of descent).[5]. Division (as on a scale), interval, space.

编辑:厄休拉

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Grade, rank, stage, step, extent, measure, mark, rate, position, quality,class, station, range, quantity, amount, limit, order

ANT:Space, mass, magnitude, size, numbers

整理:马提

解释:

n. a grade or step: one of a series of advances: relative position: rank: extent: a mark of distinction conferred by universities whether earned by examination or granted as a mark of honour: the 360th part of a circle: 60 geographical miles: nearness of relationship: comparative amount of guilt: one of the three stages (positive comparative superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.—By degrees by little and little gradually; Forbidden degrees the degrees of consanguinity and affinity within which it is not permitted to marry; Songs of degrees or Songs of ascents Psalms cxx.-cxxxiv. either because sung by the Jews returning from captivity or by the Jews coming up annually to attend the feasts at Jerusalem; To a degree to a great degree to an extreme.

校对:迈克尔