{{wiktionary|grade|grading}} '''Grade''' often refers to: * [[Grading in education]], a student's performance as determined by an educational assessment (e.g. A, pass, etc.) * A designation for students, classes and curricula indicating the amount of years a student has completed in an [[educational stage]] (e.g. [[first grade]], [[second grade]], [[K–12]], etc.) * [[Grade (slope)]], the steepness of a slope * [[Graded voting]]
'''Grade''' or '''grading''' may also refer to:
{{tocright}} ==Music== * [[Grade (music)]], a formally assessed level of proficiency in a musical instrument * [[Grade (band)]], punk rock band * [[Grades (producer)]], British electronic dance music producer and DJ
==Science and technology== ===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 indication 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 * [[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#Grades and standards|lumber]] (timber) quality and strength
===Mathematics=== * [[Grade (angle)]], a unit for the measurement of plane angles * [[Grade (ring theory)]], a cohomological invariant in commutative algebra * [[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
===Linguistics=== * Grade, each of the "levels" of [[vowel gradation]], especially [[Indo-European ablaut|in Indo-European]] * Grade, or degree, one of the [[Adjective#Comparison_(degrees)|comparative forms of an adjective]]
==Sport== * [[Grade (climbing)]], a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill * [[Grade (bouldering)]], a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a route which are distinct from those used in regular climbing * [[Degree of difficulty]], in several sports * [[International Scale of River Difficulty]], also called grade, a standardized scale used to rate the safety of a stretch of river, or a single rapid
==Other uses== * [[Grade (crime)]], the degree of seriousness of a crime * [[Military rank]] * [[Grade (surname)]] (includes a list of people with the name) * [[Grade, Cornwall]], a village in the UK * [[Coin grading]], the process of determining the condition of a collectible coin * [[Food grading]], the inspection, assessment and sorting of foods to determine quality, freshness, legal conformity and market value * [[Paper currency grading]], the process of determining the condition of a collectible bank note * [[Pattern grading]], the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry
== See also == * [[Degree (disambiguation)]] * [[Grad (disambiguation)]] * [[Gradation (disambiguation)]] * [[Gradient]] * [[grade nouveau]] * [[Rank (disambiguation)]] * [[Rating (disambiguation)]]
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