specialization
specialisation
specialty
speciality
specialism | the special line of work you have adopted as your career, his specialization is gastroenterology |
| specialization specialisation | the act of specializing, making something suitable for a special purpose |
degree
grade
level | a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality, a moderate grade of intelligence, a high level of care is required, it is all a matter of degree |
| degree | the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime), murder in the second degree, a second degree burn |
| degree of freedom | (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution |
| degree of freedom | one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system |
| degree | the highest power of a term or variable |
| degree of a term | the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term |
| degree of a polynomial | the degree of the term in the polynomial that has the highest degree |
| first degree | a degree of one, all of the terms in a linear equation are of the first degree |
positive
positive degree | the primary form of an adjective or adverb, denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution |
comparative
comparative degree r | the comparative form of an adjective or adverb, `faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast', `less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous', `more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely' |
| superlative superlative degree | the superlative form of an adjective or adverb, `fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast', `least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous', `most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely' |
| degree program | a course of study leading to an academic degree |
academic degree
degree | an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study, he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude |
associate degree
associate | a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies |
bachelor's degree
baccalaureate | an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies |
honours
honours degree | a university degree with honors |
first
firstlass honours degree | an honours degree of the highest class |
| master's degree | an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree |
doctor's degree
doctorate | one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university |
| law degree | degree conferred on someone who successfully completes law school |
honorary degree
honoris causa | a degree conferred to honor the recipient |
| third degree | interrogation often accompanied by torture to extort information or a confession |
specialization
specialisation
differentiation | (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function, cell differentiation in the developing embryo |
degree
arcdegree | a measure for arcs and angles, there aredegrees in a circle |
| degree | a unit of temperature on a specified scale, the game was played in spite of the -degree temperature |
degree centigrade
degree Celsius
C | a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature |
degree Fahrenheit
F | a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature |
| degree day | a unit used in estimating fuel requirements for heating a building |
degree level
stage
point | a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process, a remarkable degree of frankness, at what stage are the social sciences? |
| first-degree burn | burn causing redness of the skin surface |
| second-degree burn | burn causing blisters on the skin and superficial destruction of the dermis |
| third-degree burn | burn characterized by destruction of both epidermis and dermis |
commencement day
degree day | the day on which university degrees are conferred |
insofar
in so far
so far to that extent
to that degree | to the degree or extent that, insofar as it can be ascertained, the horse lung is comparable to that of man, so far as it is reasonably practical he should practice restraint |
most
to the highest degree | used to form the superlative, the king cobra is the most dangerous snake |
least
to the lowest degree | used to form the superlative, The garter snake is the least dangerous snake |
nowise
to no degree | in no manner, they are nowise different |