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Definition of Degrees
1. degree [n] - See also: degree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Degrees
Literary usage of Degrees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"Also a safe passage will be left along the Netherland coast southward of a line
joining the following positions: Latitude fifty- three degrees twenty-seven ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1899)
"On the 21 st of December, at half past four in the morning, the altitude of the
Comet was 20 degrees, 8 minutes; that of Arcturus, 44 degrees, 45 minutes; ..."
3. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1904)
"feet south from the south-east corners of a house owned by the Owen Foley estate
and shown on a certain plan on file ; thence north 84 degrees 1 minute east ..."
4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"the degrees of its evidence.' Locke's ' intuitive knowledge ... It ' degrees.'
But what he means is ex- must not be confounded with intuitive plained to be, ..."
5. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"111 two days, from the llth to the 13th, the maximum readings fell from 66-3
degrees to 41-5 degrees, or a drop of nearly 25 degrees. ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"Scientific degrees should be called by the same name as any corresponding ...
I think any distinction by way of degrees and badges is rather unfortunate, ..."
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