Grade most commonly refers to: *

Grade (education) Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements for varying levels of achievements in a course. Grades can be assigned as letters (usually A through F), as a range (for example, 1 to 6), as a percentage, or as a numbe ...

, a measurement of a student's performance * Grade, 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 ...

Grade (slope) The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal. It is a special case of the slope, where zero in ...

, the steepness of a slope 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. These are called grades. Although there are music examinations available to school and university students alongside other regular q ...

, 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 punk, hardcore with the honesty and melody of emo, and - most notably - the alternating screaming/singing style later popularized b ...

, 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 releas ...

, British electronic dance music producer and DJ

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Grading (tumors), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine * The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach *

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. Definition An evolutionary grade is a group of ...

, a paraphyletic group of organisms

Geology

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

, 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 (geology), rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.Encyclopædia Britannica. "Ore". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Ret ...

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

Engineering and technology

Grade (fasteners) A screw and a bolt (see '' Differentiation between bolt and screw'' below) are similar types of fastener typically made of metal and characterized by a helical ridge, called a ''male thread'' (external thread). Screws and bolts are used to fa ...

, the grade of nuts and bolts refers to the strength and material * Grade (elevation at earth level), in architectural engineering, the elevation of the earth surrounding a building *

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

, 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 tran ...

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

Cetane rating Cetane number (cetane rating) 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 the qual ...

, a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality *

Octane rating An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of a fuel's ability to withstand compression in an internal combustion engine without detonating. The higher the octane number, the more compression the fuel can withstand before detonating ...

, 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, 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, color, s ...

, 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 dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, wi ...

(timber) quality and strength

Mathematics

Grade (angle) In trigonometry, the gradian, also known as the gon (from grc, γωνία, gōnía, angle), grad, or grade, is a unit of measurement of an angle, defined as one hundredth of the right angle; in other words, there are 100 gradians in 90 degree ...

, a unit for the measurement of plane angles *

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 d ...

, 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 numbers. ''ρ'' must satisfy the following two properties: * Th ...

, 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 a ''gradation'', which is a decomposition of the vector space into a direct sum of vector subspaces. Integer gradation Let \mathbb be th ...

, 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 R_i R_j \subseteq R_. The index set is usually the set of nonnegative integers or the se ...

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

Linguistics

* Grade, each of the "levels" of

vowel gradation In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection etc.) is any Alternation (lin ...

, especially in Indo-European * Grade, or degree, one of the comparative forms of an adjective

Sport

Grade (climbing) In rock climbing, mountaineering, and other climbing disciplines, climbers give a grade to a climbing route or boulder problem, intended to describe concisely the difficulty and danger of climbing it. Different types of climbing (such as sport ...

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

Grade (bouldering) In the sport of bouldering, problems are assigned technical grades according to several established systems, which are often distinct from those used in roped climbing. Bouldering grade systems vary widely in use and include the Hueco "V" grade ...

, 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, 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 felony. ...

, the degree of seriousness of a crime *

Military rank Military ranks are a system of hierarchical relationships, within armed forces, police, intelligence agencies or other institutions organized along military lines. The military rank system defines dominance, authority, and responsibility in a ...

Grade (surname) Grade is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Hans Grade (1879–1946), German aviation pioneer *Leslie Grade (1916–1979), British theatrical agent *Lew Grade, Baron Grade (1906–1998), British impresario *Michael Grade Mich ...

(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 value. A coin's grade is generally determined by six criteria: strike, preservation, luster, color, attractiveness, and occasion ...

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