• 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"
• the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second Degree"; "a second Degree burn"
• the highest power of a term or variable
• 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 measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 Degrees in a circle"
• a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-Degree temperature"
• 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?"

'Degree' in other languages