degree of a system
31degree Celsius — (°C) a metric unit of temperature. The Celsius temperature scale is named for the Swedish astronomer and physicist Anders Celsius (1701 1744), who used a similar scale. The freezing point of water (at one atmosphere of pressure) was originally …
32System programming — Systems programming (or system programming) is the activity of programming system software. The primary distinguishing characteristic of systems programming when compared to application programming is that application programming aims to produce… …
33Degree Confluence Project — Le Degree Confluence Project est un projet international qui consiste à visiter à l aide d un récepteur GPS le point d intersection de tous les méridiens de longitude entière et de tous les parallèles de latitude entière. Le nom anglais du projet …
34degree of freedom — noun a) Any of the coordinates, a minimum number of which are needed to specify the motion of a mechanical system b) Any of the independent variables required to specify the thermodynamic state of a system containing components and phases …
35degree of freedom — Date: 1867 1. any of a limited number of ways in which a body may move or in which a dynamic system may change 2. one of the capabilities of a statistic for variation of which there are as many as the number of unrestricted and independent… …
36degree Celsius — noun A metric unit of temperature, a derived unit of the International System of Units. Symbol: °C …
37degree of freedom — noun technical each of a set of independent ways in which a system can change, in particular any of the directions in which motion is possible …
38degree of freedom — noun 1. Statistics the number of independent random variables that together make up a statistic. 2. a. Mechanics the number of independent ways a body can be displaced. b. Physics the number of independent ways in which a molecule can possess… …
39degree Kelvin — (°K) an obsolete name for the kelvin. In the International System, temperatures on the absolute temperature scale are stated in kelvins, not in degrees Kelvin …
40degree of freedom — noun 1. (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution (Freq. 1) • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑variable, ↑variable quantity 2. one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system …
