grade

English

/ɡɹeɪd/

noun
Definitions
  • A rating.
  • (chiefly) The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
  • A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
  • A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
  • (North America) A level of primary and secondary education.
  • (Canada) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
  • An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
  • The level of the ground.
  • (mathematics) A gradian.
  • (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
  • A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
  • (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  • (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.

Etymology

Borrowed from French grade (a grade, degree) derived from Latin gradus (degree, step, pace, a step, a station, a step in a ladder stair, position) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʰradʰ-

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