degree

a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

• “a moderate degree of intelligence”
• “a high level of care is required”
• “it is all a matter of degree”

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?”

an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study

• “he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude”

a unit of temperature on a specified scale

• “the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature”

a measure for arcs and angles

• “there are 360 degrees in a circle”

the highest power of a term or variable

the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)

• “murder in the second degree”
• “a second degree burn”