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Grade or grading may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Grade (band), punk rock band
  • Grades (producer), British electronic dance music producer and DJ

Education

  • Grading (education), a teacher's evaluation of a student's performance in class
  • Grade level : see Educational stage
  • Grade (music), a method of formally assessing the accomplishments of pupils learning musical instruments
  • Number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

  • Grading (tumors), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine
  • The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach
  • Evolutionary grade, a paraphyletic group of organisms

Geology

  • Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock
  • Metamorphic grade, an indicatation of the degree of metamorphism of rocks
  • Ore grade, a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore

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 (elevation at earth level), in architectural engineering, the elevation of the earth surrounding a building
  • Grading (earthworks), 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
  • 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, the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image
  • A rating of lumber (timber) quality and strength

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

Sport

Other uses

  • Grade (consulting), a recognized professional level
  • Grade (crime), the degree of seriousness of a crime
  • Grade (surname) (includes a list of people with the name)
  • 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

See also

  • Gradable adjective, and adjective that may indicate comparison or relative degree
  • Apophony or gradation, sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information
  • Gradient
  • Gradation (disambiguation)
  • Rank (disambiguation)
  • Rating (disambiguation)
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