Degree vs. Major
Degreenoun
A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
Degreenoun
An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
Degreenoun
A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
Degreenoun
(genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
Degreenoun
One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
Degreenoun
The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
Degreenoun
A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
Degreenoun
(geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
Degreenoun
(physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Degreenoun
(algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
Degreenoun
The dimensionality of a field extension.
Degreenoun
(graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
Degreenoun
(logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
Degreenoun
(surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
Degreenoun
(geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
Degreenoun
(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
Degreenoun
A step, stair, or staircase.
Degreenoun
One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
Degreenoun
The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
Degreenoun
Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.
Degreenoun
Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; also, (informal) the diploma provided by an educational institution attesting to the achievement of that rank; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.; to hang one's degrees on the office wall.
Degreenoun
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.
Degreenoun
Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
Degreenoun
State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.
Degreenoun
A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.
Degreenoun
A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
Degreenoun
a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality;
Degreenoun
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;
Degreenoun
an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study;
Degreenoun
a unit of temperature on a specified scale;
Degreenoun
a measure for arcs and angles;
Degreenoun
the highest power of a term or variable
Degreenoun
the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime);
Degreenoun
the amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present
Degreenoun
a unit of measurement of angles, one ninetieth of a right angle or the angle subtended by one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle
Degreenoun
a unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness
Degreenoun
each of a set of grades (usually three) used to classify burns according to their severity.
Degreenoun
a legal grade of crime or offence, especially murder
Degreenoun
a step in direct genealogical descent
Degreenoun
a position in a musical scale, counting upwards from the tonic or fundamental note
Degreenoun
the class into which an equation falls according to the highest power of unknowns or variables present
Degreenoun
any of the three steps on the scale of comparison of gradable adjectives and adverbs, namely positive, comparative, and superlative.
Degreenoun
a rank in an order of freemasonry.
Degreenoun
a thing placed like a step in a series; a tier or row.
Degreenoun
an academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course, or conferred as an honour on a distinguished person
Degreenoun
social or official rank
Majornoun
a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel
Majornoun
The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
Majornoun
A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
Majornoun
A person of legal age.
Majornoun
(logic) The major premise.
Majornoun
(Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".
Majornoun
A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.
Majornoun
An elder brother (especially at a public school).
Majornoun
(zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
Majoradjective
Of great significance or importance.
Majoradjective
Greater in number, quantity, or extent
Majoradjective
Of full legal age, having attained majority
Majoradjective
(music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
Majoradjective
(music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
Majoradjective
(music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
Majorverb
(intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
Majoradjective
Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
Majoradjective
Of greater dignity; more important.
Majoradjective
Of full legal age; adult.
Majoradjective
Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
Majornoun
An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.
Majornoun
A person of full age.
Majornoun
That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].
Majornoun
A mayor.
Majornoun
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
Majornoun
British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
Majornoun
a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject;
Majornoun
the principal field of study of a student at a university;
Majorverb
have as one's principal field of study;
Majoradjective
of greater importance or stature or rank;
Majoradjective
greater in scope or effect;
Majoradjective
greater in number or size or amount;
Majoradjective
of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes;
Majoradjective
of a scale or mode;
Majoradjective
of greater seriousness or danger;
Majoradjective
of full legal age;
Majoradjective
of the elder of two boys with the same family name;
Majoradjective
important, serious, or significant
Majoradjective
greater or more important; main
Majoradjective
(of a surgical operation) serious or life-threatening
Majoradjective
(of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
Majoradjective
(of an interval) equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval
Majoradjective
(of a key) based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect
Majoradjective
(appended to a surname in public schools) indicating the elder of two brothers.
Majoradjective
(of a term) occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
Majoradjective
(of a premise) containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
Majornoun
a rank of officer in the army and the US air force, above captain and below lieutenant colonel.
Majornoun
an officer in charge of a section of band instruments
Majornoun
a major key, interval, or scale.
Majornoun
a system of change-ringing using eight bells.
Majornoun
a major organization or competition
Majornoun
a student's principal subject or course
Majornoun
a student specializing in a specified subject
Majornoun
a major term or premise.
Majornoun
short for major suit
Majornoun
a goal.
Majorverb
specialize in (a particular subject) at college or university
Major
Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world.
