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Graduated   /grˈædʒuˌeɪtɪd/  /grˈædʒəwˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Graduate  v. t.  (past & past part. graduated; pres. part. graduating)  
1.
To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
2.
To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
3.
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. "Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts."
4.
(Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.


Graduate  v. i.  
1.
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
2.
(Zool.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
3.
To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. "He graduated at Oxford." "He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated."


adjective
Graduated  adj.  
1.
Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
2.
(Zool.) Tapered; said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
3.
Having visible marks and numbers at vertical intervals, permitting one to estimate the quantitity of material contained; of vessels, most commonly those used in laboratories for containing liquids. See graduated cylinder, etc., below.
Graduated cylinder, Graduated flask, Graduated tube, Graduated bottle, Graduated cap, Graduated glass a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels.
Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.





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"Graduated" Quotes from Famous Books



... measured, one side of it is made to coincide with this central line and the stage rack is worked left or right until the opposite side of the object is brought coincident with the central line again; the amount of displacement can then be readily obtained on referring to the graduated stage. ...
— The Story of the Cotton Plant • Frederick Wilkinson
... father is still living—the centre of a circle bound to him by their respect for every public and private virtue. Though he had completed his preparatory studies before he was eleven years of age, he did not enter college until he was nearly thirteen. Four years after, in 1834, he graduated at Dartmouth, and upon devoting one year to the study of the law, he went abroad; travelled in England, Scotland, and Germany; and resided some time in Paris, where he attended the lectures of Majendie, Broussais, and Louis, in ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... served a few weeks' apprenticeship as a file-closer, just long enough to demonstrate that he knew nothing whatever about soldiering and too much about poker. All his seniors in grade, except the West Pointers graduated in '65, had brevets for war service, and Nevins' sponsor was appealed to to rectify the omission in the lieutenant's case. Nevins had held a commission in a volunteer regiment in the defenses of Washington ...
— A Wounded Name • Charles King
... Year at Overton College," "Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College," and "Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College," the four girls passed through many new experiences, not always entirely pleasant, but which served only as a spur to their ambition to gain true college spirit, and were graduated from Overton at the end of their four years' course, more than ever the loyal children ...
— Grace Harlowe's Problem • Jessie Graham Flower
... given that he and his younger brother Henry, who accompanied him, should receive the same treatment as the other pupils, and this order was strictly obeyed. He graduated from this school January 24, 1877, just before his eighteenth birthday. After this his military career began with his entrance as an officer into the first Garde-regiment at Potsdam, that he might become thoroughly acquainted with practical service. The young prince was assigned ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various


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