FIRST DEGREE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does first degree mean?

• FIRST DEGREE (noun)
The noun FIRST DEGREE has 1 sense:

1. a degree of one

Familiarity information: FIRST DEGREE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FIRST DEGREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A degree of one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

all of the terms in a linear equation are of the first degree

Hypernyms ("first degree" is a kind of...):

degree (the highest power of a term or variable)

Context examples

A first degree burn is associated with redness, a second degree burn with vesication and a third degree burn with necrosis through the entire skin.

(Burn, Food and Drug Administration)

A contrite heart and ten nobles to holy mother Church may stave off perdition; but he hath a pardon of the first degree, with a twenty-five livre benison, so that I doubt if he will so much as feel a twinge of purgatory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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