grade

Meaning

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.

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪd/

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian grìdiju (“to go, wander”).

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