Grade
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Grade may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Grade (band), a punk rock band
- Grade, a fictional character on the YouTube channel GradeAUnderA
Education
- Grading (education), a teacher's evaluation of a student's performance in class
- Grade level, educational stage, the numbering of the year a student has reached in school
- Grade (music), a method of formally assessing the accomplishments of pupils learning musical instruments
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- Evolutionary grade, a paraphyletic group of organisms
- Grading (tumors), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine
- The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach
Engineering and technology
- Grade (fasteners), the grade of nuts and bolts refers to the strength and material
- Grade (slope), the angle of a slope such as a hill, road or railway
- Grade level, or ground level
- Grading (engineering), the preparation and leveling of land for construction, especially of roads and railways
- Grade separation, aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights to facilitate traffic flow
- Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock
- Grades and standards, a rating of lumber (timber) quality and strength
- Ore grade, a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore
- Cetane rating, a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality
- Octane rating, also called gasoline grade, the measure of the autoignition resistance of gasoline (petrol) and other fuels used in spark-ignition internal combustion engines
- Grade of service, the quality of voice service in telecommunications
- Color grading, a color balancing process used in video post-production
Mathematics
- Grade (angle), a unit for the measurement of plane angles
- Graded (mathematics), with several meanings
- Graded poset, a partially ordered set equipped with a rank function, sometimes called a ranked poset
- Graded vector space, a vector space with an extra piece of structure
- Graded algebra, an algebra over a field (or ring) with an extra piece of structure
Professional or military titles
- Grade (consulting), a recognized professional level
- Grade, a title applied to the insignia worn as in a military organization
- Grade, also mistakenly called 'military rank', in the US Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and/or Civil Air Patrol
Sport
- Grade (climbing), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill
- Grade (bouldering), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a route which are distinct from those used in regular climbing
- Degree of difficulty, in several sports
- International Scale of River Difficulty, also called grade, a standardized scale used to rate the safety of a stretch of river, or a single rapid
Other uses
- Grade (surname)
- Grade, Cornwall, a village in the UK
- Coin grading, the process of determining the grade or condition of a coin, the key factor in its value
- Pattern grading, the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry
- Grade, an alternate vowel sound within a word in apophony
- Gradable and ungradable adjectives
See also
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