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decree (di KREE) (noun)
An official order, edict, or decision; as of a church, government, or court: The government issued a decree to the effect that everyone should conserve water during the summer.
degree (di GREE) (noun)
1. Any of successive steps or states in a process or series; relative intensity: In the television court room drama, the lawyers gave the witness the third degree, asking intense questions.
2. A unit of measure on a scale: The students could measure the degrees of heat generated during their experiment using the temperature scale.
3. An academic title given to students who complete a prescribed course of study at a college or university, etc.: Ernestine was very proud of her science degree from the famous university.
2. A unit of measure on a scale: The students could measure the degrees of heat generated during their experiment using the temperature scale.
3. An academic title given to students who complete a prescribed course of study at a college or university, etc.: Ernestine was very proud of her science degree from the famous university.
The decree from the university announced to the world that Darin had achieved his academic degree in science during which he discovered a new degree for measuring vapor.
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grad-, -grade, -gred, -gree, -gress
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(a suffix which forms nouns that refer to people who regularly engage in some activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem or root of the word; originally, which appeared in Middle English in words from Old French where it expressed an intensive degree or with a pejorative or disparaging application)
(Greek: a step or degree; rank; by steps)
(French: degree of merit or importance; diameter of a bullet, cannon-ball, etc.; instrument for measuring the thickness, width, or distance through the center of a tube)
(Greek: after, behind, beyond; changed in form, altered; higher [used to designate a higher degree of a branch of science])
(Latin: appearing as if, as it were, as though; somewhat like, resembling, seemingly; simulating; in a certain sense or degree)
(possibly knowing less but understanding more; utilizing common sense to an uncommon degree)
(Latin: beyond, on the other side; excessive, to an extreme degree)
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doctorate degree
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electrical degree
The unit of measurement for an electrical angle; equal to 1/360 cycle of an alternating quantity.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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ionization degree
1. The fractional degree of ionization of acids, bases, or salts that has taken place in a solution or reaction mixture.
2. The proportion of potential ionization that has taken place for an ionizable material in a solution or reaction mixture.
2. The proportion of potential ionization that has taken place for an ionizable material in a solution or reaction mixture.
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ion, ion- +
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spherical degree
1. A solid angle equal to one-ninetieth of a spherical right angle.
2. A unit of relative surface area for spheres, equal to 1/720 the total surface area.
2. A unit of relative surface area for spheres, equal to 1/720 the total surface area.
Thinking in terms of the earth's surface, this is the area of the region in one hemisphere (northern or southern) bounded by the equator and two meridians of longitude one degree apart.
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degree
A unit of angular measurement; for example, a circle is divided into 360 degrees.
Degrees are indicated by the ° symbol, so 50° means 50 degrees.
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degree, °C
Symbol for degrees Celsius; sometimes, called centigrade.
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(the hundred-degree temperature interval gave us the name scale of centigrade from the Latin centum, "hundred" and gradus, "step")
(Old English: (first meaning), more forward; (current meaning), in addition, to a grater degree)
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coefficient of relationship, coefficient of relatedness, degree of relatedness (s) (noun); coefficient of relationships; coefficient of relatednesses; degree of relatednesses (pl)
The degree of blood kinship between two individuals: Coefficient of relationship is the probability that a gene possessed by one organism is also possessed by another organism through common descent in the previous few generations.
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