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deg

/dɛɡ/

deg is the abbreviation of degree.

deg is the clipping of degradation.

Meaning of degree

Noun

degree (plural degrees)

  1. A completed curriculum of study in tertiary education.
    • She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.
  2. A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
    • A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.
    Synonyms:
    °, arcdegree
  3. A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
    • 212 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 100 degrees Celsius.
    Synonyms:
    °
  4. The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
    • A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.
  5. (field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension.
    • The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.
  6. The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.

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Meaning of degradation

Noun

degradation (countable and uncountable, plural degradations)

  1. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
    • This feature of good organization, the conferring of definite local superior rank, and the protection of the incumbent from unnecessary degradation, was discovered centuries ago by another effective institution, the Catholic church.1912, Charles DeLano Hine, Letters from an old railway official: Letter 7
    Synonyms:
    abasement
  2. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
    • There will be no poverty. All work will be done by living machines. Everybody will be free from worry and liberated from the degradation of labor. Everybody will live only to perfect himself.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...
  3. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
    • […] for it could not be expected that a class condemned to increasing degradation of mind and body would be able to bring about the greatest revolution in history, including not only economic changes but the efflorescence of art and civilization.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
  4. A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
    • Overexploitation of land for fuelwood is a further cause of soil degradation in Africa, Asia and South America2017, Nigel Woodcock, Geology and Environment In Britain and Ireland
  5. A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural or artificial exposure.
  6. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.

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Verb

deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
    • Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 53

Noun (1) capitalized: DEG

DEG (countable and uncountable, plural DEGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dwarf elliptical galaxy.
    Synonyms:
    dE
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of diethylene glycol.

Noun (2) capitalized: dEG

dEG (plural dEGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dwarf elliptical galaxy.
    Synonyms:
    dE

Synonyms of deg

Forms of deg

Noun
pluraldegs
pluralDEGs
pluraldEGs
alternative formDEG
Verb
third-person singular presentdegs
present participledegging
past participledegged
pastdegged

Origin of deg

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Questions about deg

What does deg mean?
Deg means to sprinkle, moisten.
What is deg the abbreviation of?
Deg is the abbreviation of degree.
What part of speech is deg?
Deg can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce deg?
Deg is pronounced /dɛɡ/.
What is the past tense of deg?
The past tense of deg is degged.

Words near deg in the dictionary

  1. defœdate
  2. defœdated
  3. defœdates
  4. defœdation
  5. defœdations
  6. deg
  7. Deg Hit'an
  8. Deg Xinag
  9. Deg Xit'an
  10. deg.
  11. DeGaetano

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