College Definition–noun | 1. | an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university. |
| 2. | a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree. |
| 3. | an institutio
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n for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university. |
| 4. | an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. |
| 5. | a similar corporation outside a university. |
| 6. | the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education. |
| 7. | the administrators, faculty, and students of a college. |
| 8. | (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school. |
| 9. | an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The electoral college formally selects the president. |
| 10. | a company; assemblage. |
| 11. | Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity. |
| 12. | British Slang. a prison. |
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Degree Definition–noun | 1. | any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale. |
| 2. | a stage or point in or as if in progression or retrogression: We followed the degrees of her recovery with joy. |
| 3. | a stage in a scale of intensity or amount: a high degree of mastery. |
| 4. | extent, measure, scope, or the like: To what degree will he cooperate? |
| 5. | a stage in a scale of rank or station; relative standing in society, business, etc.: His uncouth behavior showed him to be a man of low degree. |
| 6. | Education. an academic title conferred by universities and colleges as an indication of the completion of a course of study, or as an honorary recognition of achievement. |
| 7. | a unit of measure, as of temperature or pressure, marked off on the scale of a measuring instrument: This thermometer shows a scale of degrees between only 20° and 40° C. |
| 8. | Geometry. the 360th part of a complete angle or turn, often represented by the sign°, as in 45°, which is read as 45 degrees. Compare angle1 (def. 1c). |
| 9. | the distinctive classification of a crime according to its gravity: murder in the first degree. |
| 10. | Grammar. one of the parallel formations of adjectives and adverbs used to express differences in quality, quantity, or intensity. In English, low and careful are the positive degree, lower and more careful are the comparative degre
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| 11. | Mathematics. | a. | the sum of the exponents of the variables in an algebraic term: x3 and 2x2y are terms of degree three. |
| b. | the term of highest degree of a given equation or polynomial: The expression 3x2y + y2 + 1 is of degree three. |
| c. | the exponent of the derivative of highest order appearing in a given differential equation. |
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| 12. | Music. a tone or step of the scale. |
| 13. | Astrology. any of the 360 equal divisions of the ecliptic measured counterclockwise from the vernal equinox. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac contains 30 degrees. |
| 14. | a certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of relationship: a cousin of the second degree. |
| 15. | Archaic. a line or point on the earth or the celestial sphere, as defined by degrees of latitude. |
| 16. | Obsolete. a step, as of a stair. |
—Idioms| 17. | by degrees, by easy stages; gradually: She grew angrier by degrees. |
| 18. | to a degree, | a. | to a considerable extent; exceedingly. |
| b. | to a small extent; somewhat: He is to a degree difficult to get along with. |
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