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degree

noun
  1. a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
    level
  2. the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
    “murder in the second degree”
  3. the highest power of a term or variable
  4. an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
    “I earned my degree at Princeton summa cum laude.”
    academic degree
  5. a measure for arcs and angles
    “there are 360 degrees in a circle”
    arcdegree
  6. a unit of temperature on a specified scale
    “the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature”
  7. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
    “a remarkable degree of frankness”
    level