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Webster 1913 Edition


Graduated

Grad′u-a′ted

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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.
Graduated cylinder
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Graduated flask
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Graduated tube
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Graduated bottle
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Graduated cap
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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)
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a combination of metallic and rubber springs.

Webster 1828 Edition


Graduated

GRAD'UATED

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pp.
Honored with a degree or diploma from some learned society or college.
1.
Marked with degrees or regular intervals; tempered.

Definition 2024


graduated

graduated

English

Verb

graduated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of graduate

Adjective

graduated (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) In steps.
  2. Having a university degree; having completed training.
  3. Marked with graduations.
  4. Arranged by grade, level, degree.
    • 1888, Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants, London: Whiting and Co., p 17:
      The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.
  5. (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
  6. (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

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