the extent or measure of an action, condition, or relation
the degree of force that victims are entitled to use to defend themselves
an amount or measure
a high degree of probability
a division or interval of a scale of measurement; specif any of various units for measuring temperature
a 360th part of the circumference of a circle
a step or stage in a process, course, or order of classification
an academic title conferred esp on university students in recognition of proficiency or honorarily
the rank or status of a person
people of high degree
in law, a legal measure of guilt or negligence
murder in the first degree
in medicine, a measure of damage caused to tissue by burning
in mathematics:
the rank of algebraic expression that for a monomial term is the sum of the exponents of the variable factors and for a polynomial is the sum of the exponents of the variable factors of the highest degree
the greatest power of the derivative of highest order in a differential equation
in music, the position of a note of a scale
gradually
to some extent; somewhat
to a remarkable extent
the man is eccentric to a degree