Wordcyclopedia | English | adverb of degree

adverb

— noun the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses — noun a word that modifies something other than a noun

of Preposition

— Made using. It is a house of cards.

degree Noun

— We measure an angle using degrees. All the way around a circle is 360 degrees. Often, ° is written instead of "degrees". A right-angled triangle has an angle of 90 degrees. — We measure how hot or how cold it is (temperature) using degrees on a scale, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. It's going to be 35 degrees Celsius today. — The amount that an object has of a certain quality. To what degree do the two accounts of the accident agree? — Any units used to measure specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing commodities. — An award (usually better than a diploma but not as good as a doctorate) given by a university or, in some countries, a college After four years at university, she got her degree. — The number of edges that a vertex is part of. The corner of a cube is of degree 3, but the corners of an eight-sided solid have degree 4.

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