Degree

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Degree may refer to:

Contents 1 As a unit of measurement 2 In mathematics 3 In education 4 Other measures 5 Other uses

[edit] As a unit of measurement

• Degree symbol, (°), a notation used in science, engineering and mathematics
• Degree (angle), a unit of angle measurement
• Degree (temperature), a unit of temperature measurement
• Degree API, a measure of density in the petroleum industry
• Degree Baumé, a pair of density scales
• Degree Brix, a measure of sugar concentration
• Degree Gay-Lussac, a measure of the alcohol content of a liquid by volume, ranging from 0° to 100°
• Degree proof, or simply proof, the alcohol content of a liquid, ranging from 0° to 175° in the UK, and from 0° to 200° in the U.S.
• Degree of curvature, a unit of curvature measurement, used in civil engineering
• Degrees of freedom (mechanics), the number of displacements and/or rotations needed to define the position and orientation of a body
• Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry), a concept describing dependence on a countable set of parameters
• Degree of frost, a unit of temperature measurement
• Degree of unsaturation, in organic chemistry, also known as the index of hydrogen deficiency or rings plus double bonds

[edit] In mathematics

• Degree (mathematics), with several meanings
• Degree of a polynomial, the exponent of the term with the highest exponent
• Degree of a field extension
• Degree (graph theory), or valency, the number of edges incident to a vertex of a graph
• Degree of a continuous mapping
• Degrees of freedom (statistics), the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary

[edit] In education

• Academic degree, an academic award or title, including:
  • Foundation degree
  • Associate's degree
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Master's degree
  • Doctorate
  • Engineer's degree
  • Specialist degree
  • Ad eundem degree
  • Honorary degree
  • Lambeth degree
  • External degree
• Vocational degree, an award in vocational education

[edit] Other measures

• Degree (music), identification of a note in a scale by its relation to the tonic
• Degree of inventiveness in inventions and patents
• Degree of separation in connectivity between groups
• The positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, in linguistics (e.g. "good", "better", and "best", respectively)
• Consanguinity, or level of kinship
• The severity of a crime, e.g., first degree murder
• The intensity of a burn, ranging from first degree to third degree
• A level of initiation, often used in fraternal organizations
• A ranking of black belt, in certain martial arts

[edit] Other uses

• Degree (deodorant), a brand of antiperspirant

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