# Grade > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Grade > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Grade.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade > Source revision: 1341498076 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Look up ***[grade](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grade)*** or ***[grading](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grading)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. **Grade** often refers to: - [Grading in education](/source/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](/source/Educational_stage) (e.g. [first grade](/source/First_grade), [second grade](/source/Second_grade), [K–12](/source/K%E2%80%9312), etc.) - [Grade (slope)](/source/Grade_(slope)), the steepness of a slope - [Graded voting](/source/Graded_voting) **Grade** or **grading** may also refer to: ## Music - [Grade (music)](/source/Grade_(music)), a formally assessed level of proficiency in a musical instrument - [Grade (band)](/source/Grade_(band)), punk rock band - [Grades (producer)](/source/Grades_(producer)), British electronic dance music producer and DJ ## Science and technology ### Biology and medicine - [Grading (tumors)](/source/Grading_(tumors)), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine - [The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach](/source/The_Grading_of_Recommendations_Assessment%2C_Development_and_Evaluation_(GRADE)_approach) - [Evolutionary grade](/source/Evolutionary_grade), a paraphyletic group of organisms ### Geology - [Graded bedding](/source/Graded_bedding), a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock - [Metamorphic grade](/source/Metamorphic_grade), an indication of the degree of metamorphism of rocks - [Ore grade](/source/Ore_grade), a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore ### Engineering and technology - [Grade (fasteners)](/source/Grade_(fasteners)), the grade of nuts and bolts refers to the strength and material - [Grading (earthworks)](/source/Grading_(earthworks)), the preparation and leveling of land for construction, especially of roads and railways - [Grade separation](/source/Grade_separation), aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights to facilitate traffic flow - [Cetane rating](/source/Cetane_rating), a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality - [Octane rating](/source/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](/source/Grade_of_service), the quality of voice service in telecommunications - [Color grading](/source/Color_grading), the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image - A rating of [lumber](/source/Lumber#Grades_and_standards) (timber) quality and strength ### Mathematics - [Grade (angle)](/source/Grade_(angle)), a unit for the measurement of plane angles - [Grade (ring theory)](/source/Grade_(ring_theory)), a cohomological invariant in commutative algebra - [Graded (mathematics)](/source/Graded_(mathematics)), with several meanings - [Graded poset](/source/Graded_poset), a partially ordered set equipped with a rank function, sometimes called a **ranked poset** - [Graded vector space](/source/Graded_vector_space), a vector space with an extra piece of structure - [Graded algebra](/source/Graded_algebra), an algebra over a field (or ring) with an extra piece of structure ### Linguistics - Grade, each of the "levels" of [vowel gradation](/source/Vowel_gradation), especially [in Indo-European](/source/Indo-European_ablaut) - Grade, or degree, one of the [comparative forms of an adjective](/source/Adjective#Comparison_(degrees)) ## Sport - [Grade (climbing)](/source/Grade_(climbing)), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill - [Grade (bouldering)](/source/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](/source/Degree_of_difficulty), in several sports - [International Scale of River Difficulty](/source/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)](/source/Grade_(crime)), the degree of seriousness of a crime - [Military rank](/source/Military_rank) - [Grade (surname)](/source/Grade_(surname)) (includes a list of people with the name) - [Grade, Cornwall](/source/Grade%2C_Cornwall), a village in the UK - [Coin grading](/source/Coin_grading), the process of determining the condition of a collectible coin - [Food grading](/source/Food_grading), the inspection, assessment and sorting of foods to determine quality, freshness, legal conformity and market value - [Paper currency grading](/source/Paper_currency_grading), the process of determining the condition of a collectible bank note - [Pattern grading](/source/Pattern_grading), the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry ## See also - [Degree (disambiguation)](/source/Degree_(disambiguation)) - [Grad (disambiguation)](/source/Grad_(disambiguation)) - [Gradation (disambiguation)](/source/Gradation_(disambiguation)) - [Gradient](/source/Gradient) - [grade nouveau](/source/Grade_nouveau) - [Rank (disambiguation)](/source/Rank_(disambiguation)) - [Rating (disambiguation)](/source/Rating_(disambiguation)) Topics referred to by the same term This [disambiguation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Disambiguation) page lists articles associated with the title **Grade**. 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