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Definition grade

Etymology

Borrowed from French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, a step in a ladder or stair, a station, position, degree”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rad?-, *g?red?- (“to walk, go”). Cognate with Gothic ????? (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian grìdiju (“to go, wander”).

Noun

grade (plural grades)

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

Verb

grade (third-person singular simple present grades, present participle grading, simple past and past participle graded)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
2. (chiefly Canada, US) To assign a score to overall academic performance.
3. To organize in grades.
4. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
5. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
6. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.

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