grad
grad Lexical Profile
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• adjective
North American Relating to or engaged in postgraduate academic study after completing a bachelor's degree.
"The grad students spent the entire weekend preparing their research presentations for the symposium."
• noun
North American A person who has successfully completed a course of study or training at a high school, college, or university.
"As a recent college grad, she was eager to start her first full-time job at the engineering firm."
North American A student who is pursuing an advanced academic degree after having earned a bachelor's degree.
"The lab is staffed primarily by grads working toward their doctoral degrees in biochemistry."
A unit of angular measurement equal to one hundredth of a right angle (0.9 degrees), used primarily in land surveying.
"The surveyor calibrated the theodolite to measure horizontal angles in grads rather than degrees."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Originating in the late 19th century as a colloquial clipping of 'graduate', which ultimately derives from Medieval Latin graduatus, from Latin gradus ('step, grade, or rank'). The metric angular unit sense was borrowed from French grade in the 19th century.