Vocabulary : Graduality to Gradus
Graduality : The state of being gradual; gradualness.Gradually : In a gradual manner. ;; In degree.
Gradualness : The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
Graduate : To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc. ;; To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College. ;; To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. ;; To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. ;; To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz. ;; To taper, as the tail of certain birds. ;; To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. ;; One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning. ;
Graduated : of Graduate ;; Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades. ;; Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.