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  • English Word Degree Definition Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
  • English Word Degree Definition 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.
  • English Word Degree Definition 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.
  • English Word Degree Definition A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
  • English Word Degree Definition A line or space of the staff.
  • English Word Degu Definition A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidae.
  • English Word Degust Definition To taste.
  • English Word Degustation Definition Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.
  • English Word Dehisce Definition To gape; to open by dehiscence.
  • English Word Dehiscence Definition The act of gaping.
  • English Word Dehiscence Definition A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.
  • English Word Dehiscent Definition Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
  • English Word Dehonestate Definition To disparage.
  • English Word Dehonestation Definition A dishonoring; disgracing.
  • English Word Dehorn Definition To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.
  • English Word Dehorned Definition of Dehorn
  • English Word Dehorning Definition of Dehorn
  • English Word Dehors Definition Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.
  • English Word Dehors Definition All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.
  • English Word Dehort Definition To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.
  • English Word Dehortation Definition Dissuasion; advice against something.
  • English Word Dehortative Definition Dissuasive.
  • English Word Dehortatory Definition Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade.
  • English Word Dehorted Definition of Dehort
  • English Word Dehorter Definition A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.
  • English Word Dehorting Definition of Dehort
  • English Word Dehumanize Definition To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
  • English Word Dehusk Definition To remove the husk from.
  • English Word Dehydrate Definition To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.
  • English Word Dehydration Definition The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.