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grad·u·a·tion

(grăj′o͞o-ā′shən)

a. Conferral or receipt of an academic degree or diploma marking completion of studies: the rate of graduation of student athletes.

b. A ceremony at which degrees or diplomas are conferred; a commencement.

a. A division or interval, as on a graduated scale: shading with many fine graduations.

b. A mark indicating the boundary of such a division or interval.

3. An arrangement in or a division into stages or degrees.

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graduation

(ˌɡrædjʊˈeɪʃən)

1. the act of graduating or the state of being graduated

2. (Education) the ceremony at which school or college degrees and diplomas are conferred

3. a mark or division or all the marks or divisions that indicate measure on an instrument or vessel

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grad•u•a•tion

(ˌgrædʒ uˈeɪ ʃən)

n.

1. an act of graduating or the state of being graduated.

2. the ceremony of conferring degrees or diplomas, as at a college or school.

3. arrangement in degrees, levels, or ranks.

a. a mark on an instrument or vessel for indicating degree or quantity.

b. such marks collectively.

[1375–1425; < Medieval Latin]

graduation

The awarding of an academic degree or diploma, or the ceremony at which this is carried out.

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Noun	1.	graduation - the successful completion of a program of study mop up, windup, completion, culmination, closing - a concluding action
	2.	graduation - an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation exercise, commencement baccalaureate - a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies exercise - (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches; "academic exercises"
	3.	graduation - a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement; "the ruler had 16 graduations per inch" line - a mark that is long relative to its width; "He drew a line on the chart"
	4.	graduation - the act of arranging in grades gradation quantification - the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something blending, shading - a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

graduation

noun calibration, marking, grade, gauge medicine bottles with graduations on them

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Translations

تَخَرُّجتَقسيم إلى دَرجاتحَفْلَة تَخْريج

promocepromočnístupnice

dimissiondimissions-dimissionsceremoniinddeling

Abschluss Abschlussfeier Abstufung

αποφοίτηση αποφόιτηση

graduación

valmistuminenvalmistujaiset

graduation remise de diplômes remise des diplômes

diplomiranje

diplomaátadásegyetemi avatás

stigmerking, kvörîunútskrift

laurea graduazione

大学卒業

졸업

diploma-uitreiking

avgangseksamen gradinndeling

ukończenie szkoły

graduação

окончание окончание учебного заведения выпуск

promočný

diploma

akademisk examen

การสำเร็จการศึกษา

mezuniyetderece çizgisidiploma töreni

sự tốt nghiệp

刻度毕业毕业典礼

graduation

[ˌgrædjʊˈeɪʃən] N (= ceremony) (Univ etc) → entrega f del título universitario (US) (Scol) → entrega f del título de bachiller

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graduation

[ˌgrædʒuˈeɪʃ^ən] n

(= university ceremony) → cérémonie f de remise des diplômes

(obtaining one's degree)
after graduation, I → après avoir obtenu mon diplôme, je ...

(US) (= high school ceremony) → cérémonie f de remise des diplômesgraduation ceremony n (from university) → cérémonie f de remise des diplômesgraduation day n (from university) → jour m de la remise des diplômes

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

graduation

(= mark) → (Maß)einteilung f

(Univ, US Sch: = ceremony) → (Ab)schlussfeier f (mit feierlicher Überreichung der Zeugnisse); his graduation was delayed by illness → wegen Krankheit wurde ihm sein Zeugnis erst später überreicht

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graduation

[ˌgrædjʊˈeɪʃ/ən] n (Univ) (ceremony) → consegna delle lauree (Am) (Scol) → consegna dei diplomi

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graduate

(ˈgradjueit) verb

1. to receive a degree, diploma etc. He graduated in German and French.

2. to mark out with regular divisions. A thermometer is graduated in degrees.

(-ət) noun

a person who has been awarded a degree or diploma. a graduate in French.

ˌgraduˈation noun

1. the act or ceremony of graduating from a college, university etc. The graduation will be held in the large hall; (also adjective) a graduation ceremony.

2. a marked division. the graduations on a thermometer.

graduation

→ تَخَرُّج promoce dimission Abschlussfeier αποφόιτηση graduación valmistuminen remise des diplômes diplomiranje laurea 大学卒業 졸업 diploma-uitreiking avgangseksamen ukończenie szkoły graduação окончание учебного заведения akademisk examen การสำเร็จการศึกษา mezuniyet sự tốt nghiệp 毕业

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"I was glad you could git over to Huldy's graduation, Delia," said Mrs.

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You didn't get that speech out of books.' Among my graduation presents there was a silk umbrella from Mrs.

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Willie, the eighteen-year-old son, who attends the New York public school, is absorbed in the weekly article describing how to make over an old skirt, for he hopes to take a prize in sewing on graduation day.

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After the first week the girls of Patty's Place settled down to a steady grind of study; for this was their last year at Redmond and graduation honors must be fought for persistently.

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He got no new clothing during his apprenticeship, but on his graduation day his master tricked him out in spang-new tow-linens and made him feel unspeakably rich and fine.

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Soon after her graduation from the Framingham institution, Miss Davidson came to Tuskegee, bringing into the school many valuable and fresh ideas as to the best methods of teaching, as well as a rare moral character and a life of unselfishness that I think has seldom been equalled.

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Herrick, the nephew of a wealthy goldsmith, seems, after a late graduation from Cambridge, to have spent some years about the Court and in the band of Jonson's 'sons.' Entering the Church when he was nearly forty, he received the small country parish of Dean Prior in the southwest (Devonshire), which he held for nearly twenty years, until 1647, when he was dispossessed by the victorious Puritans.

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Each man's rank in that perfect graduation depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.

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By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure.

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There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.

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The High Court in Nakuru has ordered Egerton University to pay Sh250,000 as compensation for damages to a student whose graduation has been delayed for more than four years over missing marks.