Meaning

• Noun

  1. A rating.
  2. Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
  3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
  4. Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
  5. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
  6. A level of primary and secondary education.
  7. A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
  8. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
  9. The level of the ground.
  10. A gradian.
  11. In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
  12. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
  13. A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  14. The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
  15. An eyeglass prescription.

• Verb