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Definition of Degree of freedom

1. Noun. (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution.

2. Noun. One of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system.

Definition of Degree of freedom

1. Noun. (physics) Any of the coordinates, a minimum number of which are needed to specify the motion of a mechanical system ¹

2. Noun. (physics) Any of the independent variables required to specify the thermodynamic state of a system containing components and phases ¹

3. Noun. (mathematics) Any unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degree Of Freedom

degreasing degreasings degree degree-day degree Celsius degree Centigrade degree Fahrenheit degree Kelvin degree Rankine degree absolute

degree day degree days degree mill degree of a polynomial degree of a term degree of freedom (current term) degree of glory degree of ionization degree program degreed

degreeless degreelessness degrees degrees Celsius degrees Fahrenheit degrees Kelvin degrees of comparison degrees of freedom degressive degressively

Literary usage of Degree of freedom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Individualization of Punishment by Raymond ( Saleilles (1911)
"Responsibility proportioned to the Degree of Freedom; Irresponsibility and its Establishment Let us now turn to the formulated conclusions. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"-When the value of one is assigned, say by xa, the point is said to have lost one degree of freedom, or to have had imposed upon it one " degree of ..."

3. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1905)
"Oscillations with One Degree of Freedom. 432. WHEN a system of bodies admits of only one independent motion and is making small oscillations about some mean ..."

4. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1813)
"... the bloody inquisition has displayed all the terrors of its sanguinary spirit, was once a land of piety, where a good degree of freedom was enjoyed. ..."

5. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1885)
"... and there can be no rotation except round this fixed line, and so there can be only one degree of freedom, which corresponds to that rotation. ..."

6. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"These unbridled acts constituted the third or superlative Degree of Freedom, according to Burke's ..."

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