Synonyms of the word

gradation

• n. A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
• n. A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. See Synonyms at nuance.
• n. The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
• n. Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
• n. (countable) A calibration marking.
• n. (music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
• n. (phonetics) Apophony.
• v. (transitive) To form with gradations.

ablaut

• n. (linguistics) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification…
• v. (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.

grade

• n. A rating.
• n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
• n. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
• n. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage.
• n. (Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
• n. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
• n. An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine).
• n. The level of the ground.
• n. (mathematics) A gradian.
• n. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection…
• n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
• n. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
• n. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
• v. To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
• v. To assign a score to overall academic performance.
• v. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
• v. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make…

graduation

• n. The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as…
• n. A commencement ceremony.
• n. (sciences) A marking (i.e. on a container) indicating a measurement.
• n. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.

quantification

• n. the act of quantifying.
• n. (economics) the expression of an economic activity in monetary units.
• n. (logic) a limitation that is imposed on the variables of a proposition.

rank

• adj. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
• adj. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
• adj. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
• adj. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
• adj. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
• adj. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
• adj. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
• adj. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
• adj. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
• adj. (obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
• adv. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
• n. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the…
• n. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key…
• n. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
• n. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
• n. a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
• n. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system.
• n. (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
• n. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
• n. (chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number)…
• v. To place abreast, or in a line.
• v. To have a ranking.
• v. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
• v. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.

step

• n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
• n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a…
• n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
• n. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
• n. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
• n. A small space or distance.
• n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• n. A gait; manner of walking.
• n. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
• n. (plural) A walk; passage.
• n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• n. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of…
• n. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series…
• n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• n. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
• n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• n. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
• n. (slang) A stepsibling.
• v. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet…
• v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• v. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.