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“degree”
A unit of angular measurement: A circle is divided into 360 degrees.
Degrees are indicated by the ° symbol, so 50° means 50 degrees.
People with good eyesight have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees.
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Symbol for degrees Celsius, sometimes, called centigrade: Water boils at 100°C. and freezes at 0°C.
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(the hundred-degree temperature interval gave us the name scale of centigrade from the Latin centum, "hundred" and gradus, "step")
(Old English: (first meaning), more forward; (current meaning), in addition, to a grater degree)
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coefficient of relationship, coefficient of relatedness, degree of relatedness (s) (noun); coefficient of relationships; coefficient of relatednesses; degree of relatednesses (pl)
The degree of blood kinship between two individuals: Coefficient of relationship is the probability that a gene possessed by one organism is also possessed by another organism through common descent in the previous few generations.
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