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Definition of Grads
1. grad [n] - See also: grad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grads
Literary usage of Grads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quantitative Classification of Igneous Rocks: Based on Chemical and Mineral by Whitman Cross, Joseph Paxson Iddings, Louis Valentine Pirsson, Henry Stephens Washington (1902)
"Their division into grads is of the same kind as that forming Orders in Classes
I, II and III, but since their amount is considerably smaller than in rocks ..."
2. A New Treatise on Elements of Mechanics Establishing Strict Precision in the by John William Nystrom (1875)
"The compass to be divided into grads like the circle, but numbered from North
and South toward East and West, making 30 grads in each quadrant. Fig. ..."
3. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"In Classes II, III, and IV the rangs are again divided into grads, which serve
to classify the subordinate minerals. In Classes II and III the subordinate ..."
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