verb
- Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies.
- usage: "She graduated in 1990"
- synonyms: graduate
- Confer an academic degree upon.
- usage: "This school graduates 2, 000 students each year"
- synonyms: graduate
- Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring.
- usage: "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
adjective
- Marked with or divided into degrees.
- usage: "a calibrated thermometer"
- synonyms: calibrated
- Taking place by degrees.
- synonyms: gradational, gradatory
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