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Diploma
A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as college or university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study. The word diploma also refers to an academic award which is given after the completion of study in different courses such as diploma in higher education, diploma in graduation or diploma in post graduation etc. Historically, it can also refer to a charter or official document, thus diplomatic, diplomat and diplomacy via the Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus.The diploma (as a document certifying a qualification) may also be called a testamur, Latin for “we testify” or “certify” (testari), so called from the word with which the certificate begins; this is commonly used in Australia to refer to the document certifying the award of a degree. Alternatively, this document can simply be referred to as a degree certificate or graduation certificate, or as a parchment. The certificate that a Nobel laureate receives is also called a diploma.
The term diploma is also used in some historical contexts, to refer to documents signed by a King affirming a grant or tenure of specified land and its conditions (see Anglo-Saxon Charters and Diplomatics).
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Diploma (noun)
A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
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Degree (noun)
A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder. from 13th c.
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Degree (noun)
An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values. from 13th c.
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Degree (noun)
A stage of rank or privilege; social standing. from 13th c.
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Degree (noun)
A ‘step’ in genealogical descent. from 14th c.
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Degree (noun)
One’s relative state or experience; way, manner. from 14th c.
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Degree (noun)
The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent. from 14th c.
“To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?”
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Degree (noun)
A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) from 14th c.
“She has two bachelor’s degrees and is studying towards a master’s degree.”
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Degree (noun)
A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle’s circumference. from 14th c.
“A right angle is a ninety degree angle.”
“Most humans have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees.”
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Degree (noun)
A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. from 18th c.
“180 degrees Fahrenheit is equivalent to 100 degrees Celsius.”
“Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.”
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Degree (noun)
The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial. from 18th c.
“A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.”
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Degree (noun)
The dimensionality of a field extension.
“The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.”
“The Galois field operatorname{GF}(125) = operatorname{GF}(5^3) has degree 3 over its subfield operatorname{GF}(5).”
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Degree (noun)
The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
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Degree (noun)
The number of logical connectives in a formula.
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Degree (noun)
The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
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Degree (noun)
A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth’s surface.
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Degree (noun)
Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
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Degree (noun)
the amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present
“a question of degree”
“a degree of caution is probably wise”
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Degree (noun)
a unit of measurement of angles, one ninetieth of a right angle or the angle subtended by one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle
“set at an angle of 45 degrees”
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Degree (noun)
a unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness
“water boils at 100 degrees Celsius”
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Degree (noun)
each of a set of grades (usually three) used to classify burns according to their severity.
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Degree (noun)
a legal grade of crime or offence, especially murder
“second-degree murder”
“criminal conduct in the first degree”
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Degree (noun)
a step in direct genealogical descent
“second-degree relatives”
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Degree (noun)
a position in a musical scale, counting upwards from the tonic or fundamental note
“the lowered third degree of the scale”
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Degree (noun)
the class into which an equation falls according to the highest power of unknowns or variables present
“an equation of the second degree”
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Degree (noun)
any of the three steps on the scale of comparison of gradable adjectives and adverbs, namely positive, comparative, and superlative.
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Degree (noun)
a rank in an order of freemasonry.
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Degree (noun)
a thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row.
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Degree (noun)
an academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course, or conferred as an honour on a distinguished person
“a degree in zoology”
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Degree (noun)
social or official rank
“persons of unequal degree”