Grade most commonly refers to: *

Grading in education Grading in education is the application of standardized Measurement, measurements to evaluate different levels of student achievement in a course. Grades can be expressed as letters (usually A to F), as a range (for example, 1 to 6), percentage ...

, a measurement of a student's performance by

educational assessment Educational assessment or educational evaluation is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, Attitude (psychology), attitudes, aptitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning. Ass ...

(e.g. A, pass, etc.) * A designation for students, classes and curricula indicating the number of the year a student has reached in a given

educational stage Educational stages are subdivisions of formal learning, typically covering early childhood education, primary education, secondary education and tertiary education. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) re ...

(e.g.

first grade First grade (also 1st Grade or Grade 1) is the first year of formal or compulsory education. It is the first year of elementary school, and the first school year after kindergarten. Children in first grade are usually 6–7 years old. Examples ...

second grade Second grade (also 2nd Grade or Grade 2) is the second year of formal or compulsory education. It is the second year of primary school. Children in second grade are usually aged 7–8. Australia equivalent In Australia, this level of class is c ...

K–12 K–12, from kindergarten to 12th grade, is an English language expression that indicates the range of years of publicly supported primary and secondary education found in the United States and Canada, which is similar to publicly supported sch ...

, etc.) *

Grade (slope) The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line is either the elevation angle of that surface to the horizontal plane, horizontal or its tangent. I ...

, the steepness of a slope *

Graded voting Rated, evaluative, graded, or cardinal voting rules are a class of voting methods that allow voters to state how strongly they support a candidate, by giving each one a grade on a separate scale. The distribution of ratings for each candidate� ...

Grade or grading may also refer to:

Music

Grade (music) Music examinations are a method of formally assessing the accomplishments of pupils learning musical instruments. Trinity College London was the first organization to offer examinations in music to external students in 1877. Trinity College Londo ...

, a formally assessed level of profiency in a musical instrument *

Grade (band) Grade is a melodic hardcore band from Burlington, Ontario, often credited as pioneers in blending metallic hardcore with the honesty and melody of emo, and - most notably - the alternating screaming/singing style later popularized by bands like P ...

, punk rock band *

Grades (producer) Grades (born Daniel Traynor) is an English producer, songwriter and DJ based in London. His music encompasses elements of R&B, Hip Hop, 2step, House and Electronic. Career As an artist/DJ, Grades’ first original track "Freedom" was release ...

, British electronic dance music producer and DJ

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Grading (tumors) In pathology, grading is a measure of the cell appearance in tumors and other neoplasms. Some pathology grading systems apply only to malignant neoplasms (cancer); others apply also to benign neoplasms. The neoplastic grading is a measure of cell ...

, a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine *

The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach The GRADE approach (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) is a method of assessing the certainty in evidence (also known as quality of evidence or confidence in effect estimates) and the strength of recommendations in ...

Evolutionary grade A grade is a taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity. The term was coined by British biologist Julian Huxley, to contrast with clade, a strictly phylogenetic unit. Phylogenetics The concept of evolutionary grades ...

, a paraphyletic group of organisms

Geology

Graded bedding In geology, a graded bed is a bed characterized by a systematic change in grain or clast size from bottom to top of the bed. Most commonly this takes the form of normal grading, with coarser sediments at the base, which grade upward into progre ...

, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock *

Metamorphic grade Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture. Metamorphism takes place at temperatures in excess of , and often also at elevated pressure or in the presence of chem ...

, an indicatation of the degree of metamorphism of rocks *

Ore grade Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically including metals, concentrated above background levels, and that is economically viable to mine and process. The grade of ore refers to the concentration ...

, a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore

Engineering and technology

Grade (fasteners) A screw is an externally helical threaded fastener capable of being tightened or released by a twisting force (torque) to the screw head, head. The most common uses of screws are to hold objects together and there are many forms for a variety ...

, the grade of nuts and bolts refers to the strength and material *

Grading (earthworks) Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and g ...

, the preparation and leveling of land for construction, especially of roads and railways *

Grade separation In civil engineering (more specifically highway engineering), grade separation is a method of aligning a junction of two or more surface transport axes at different heights ( grades) so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other tr ...

, aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights to facilitate traffic flow *

Cetane rating Cetane number (cetane rating) (CN) is an indicator of the combustion speed of diesel fuel and compression needed for ignition. It plays a similar role for diesel as octane rating does for gasoline. The CN is an important factor in determining t ...

, a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality *

Octane rating An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of a liquid fuel, fuel's ability to withstand Compression ratio, compression in an internal combustion engine without causing engine knocking. The higher the octane number, the more compres ...

, 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 In telecommunications engineering, and in particular teletraffic engineering, the quality of voice service is specified by two measures: the grade of service (GoS) and the quality of service (QoS). Grade of service is the probability of a cal ...

, the quality of voice service in telecommunications *

Color grading Color grading is a post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing of altering the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices. Various attributes of an image such as contrast (vision), ...

, the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image * A rating of

lumber Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, window frames). ...

(timber) quality and strength

Mathematics

Grade (angle) In trigonometry, the gradianalso known as the gon (), grad, or gradeis a unit of measurement of an angle, defined as one-hundredth of the right angle; in other words, 100 gradians is equal to 90 degrees. It is equivalent to of a turn, of ...

, a unit for the measurement of plane angles *

Grade (ring theory) In commutative and homological algebra, the grade of a finitely generated module M over a Noetherian ring R is a cohomological invariant defined by vanishing of Ext-modules \textrm\,M=\textrm_R\,M=\inf\left\. For an ideal I\triangleleft ...

, a cohomological invariant in commutative algebra *

Graded (mathematics) In mathematics, the term "graded" has a number of meanings, mostly related: In abstract algebra, it refers to a family of concepts: * An algebraic structure X is said to be I-graded for an index set I if it has a gradation or grading, i.e. a dec ...

, with several meanings *

Graded poset In mathematics, in the branch of combinatorics, a graded poset is a partially-ordered set (poset) ''P'' equipped with a rank function ''ρ'' from ''P'' to the set N of all natural number In mathematics, the natural numbers are the numbers 0 ...

, a partially ordered set equipped with a rank function, sometimes called a ranked poset *

Graded vector space In mathematics, a graded vector space is a vector space that has the extra structure of a ''grading'' or ''gradation'', which is a decomposition of the vector space into a direct sum of vector subspaces, generally indexed by the integers. For ...

, a vector space with an extra piece of structure *

Graded algebra In mathematics, in particular abstract algebra, a graded ring is a ring such that the underlying additive group is a direct sum of abelian groups R_i such that . The index set is usually the set of nonnegative integers or the set of integers, ...

, an algebra over a field (or ring) with an extra piece of structure

Linguistics

* Grade, each of the "levels" of vowel gradation, especially in Indo-European * Grade, or degree, one of the comparative forms of an adjective

Sport

Grade (climbing) Many climbing routes have grades for the technical difficulty, and in some cases for the risks, of the route. The first ascent, first ascensionist can suggest a grade but it will be amended for the ''consensus view'' of subsequent ascents. W ...

, a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill *

Grade (bouldering) Many climbing routes have grades for the technical difficulty, and in some cases for the risks, of the route. The first ascensionist can suggest a grade but it will be amended for the ''consensus view'' of subsequent ascents. While many cou ...

, 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 Degree of difficulty (DD, sometimes called tariff or grade) is a rating used in several sports and other competitions to indicate the technical difficulty of a skill, performance, or course, often as a factor in scoring. Sports which incorporate a ...

, 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 grade of a crime is its ranking or classification by its degree or seriousness or severity. A felony is more serious than a misdemeanor, which is more serious than an infraction. A first degree felony is more serious than a second degree felon ...

, the degree of seriousness of a crime *

Military rank Military ranks is a system of hierarchy, hierarchical relationships within armed forces, police, Intelligence agency, intelligence agencies, paramilitary groups, and other institutions organized along military organisation , military lines, such ...

* Grade (surname) (includes a list of people with the name) * Grade, Cornwall, a village in the UK *

Coin grading Coin grading is the process of determining the grade or condition of a coin, one of the key factors in determining its collectible value. A coin's grade is generally determined by six criteria: strike, preservation, luster, color, attractiveness ...

, the process of determining the grade or condition of a coin, the key factor in its value *

Food grading Food grading involves the inspection, assessment and sorting of various foods regarding quality, freshness, legal conformity and market value.Saravacos, George D.; Maroulis, Zacharias B. (2011''Food Process Engineering Operations'' CRC Press ...

, the inspection, assessment and sorting of foods to determine quality, freshness, legal conformity and market value *

Pattern grading Pattern grading is the process of turning base size or sample size Pattern (sewing), patterns into additional sizes using a size specification sheet or grading increments. This can be done manually or digitally using computerized pattern drafting ...

, the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry