degree

grado

Unidad que mide lo caliente o frío que está algo.

En inglés sencillo: A unit used to measure how hot or cold something is.

• It is twenty degrees outside.
• The temperature fell by five degrees.
• Heat the oven to two hundred degrees Celsius.

Sinónimos: °

Expresiones frecuentes: degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, below zero degrees

título universitario

Título que se obtiene al completar con éxito un programa de estudios en una universidad.

En inglés sencillo: A qualification you receive after successfully completing a course of study at a university or college.

• He wants to get a degree.
• She earned her degree last year.
• Does this job require a university degree?

Cómo se usa: degree in something (She has a degree in history.)

Sinónimos: qualification

Expresiones frecuentes: university degree, degree in something, earn a degree

grado

Unidad para medir ángulos; una vuelta completa tiene 360 grados.

En inglés sencillo: A unit for measuring angles; a full circle contains 360 of these units.

• A right angle measures ninety degrees.
• Turn the handle through forty-five degrees.
• This angle is one degree smaller than that one.

Sinónimos: °, arcdegree

Expresiones frecuentes: ninety degrees, degree of rotation, one degree

grado, nivel

Cantidad o intensidad de una cualidad, un sentimiento o una situación.

En inglés sencillo: The amount or strength of a quality, feeling, or condition.

• The tasks have different degrees of difficulty.
• Everyone needs some degree of privacy.
• To what degree did the changes help?

Cómo se usa: degree of something (The job requires a high degree of patience.); to a certain/some degree (To some degree, I agree with you.)

Sinónimos: extent, level, amount

Expresiones frecuentes: degree of difficulty, to some degree, high degree

grado

Unidad usada en la producción para medir propiedades como el amargor, la oscuridad o la densidad.

En inglés sencillo: A unit used in production to measure qualities such as how bitter, dark, or dense something is.

• The juice measured twelve degrees Brix.
• The brewer recorded the density in degrees Plato.
• This liquid measures ten degrees Baumé.

Expresiones frecuentes: degrees Plato, degrees Baumé, degrees Brix

grado

Número de aristas que llegan a un punto concreto de un grafo o un cuerpo geométrico.

En inglés sencillo: The number of edges connected to a particular point in a graph or solid shape.

• This vertex has degree three.
• Each corner of the cube has degree three.
• Calculate the degrees of all the vertices.

Cómo se usa: degree of a vertex (The degree of this vertex is four.)

Sinónimos: valency

Expresiones frecuentes: vertex degree, degree three, degree of something