Grade most commonly refers to: * Grade (education), a measurement of a student's performance * Grade, the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope Grade or grading may also refer to:

Music

* Grade (music), a formally assessed level of profiency in a musical instrument * Grade (band), punk rock band * Grades (producer), 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 paraphyletic group of organisms

Geology

* Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock * Metamorphic grade, an indicatation of the degree of metamorphism of rocks * Ore grade, a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore

Engineering and technology

* Grade (fasteners), 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), the preparation and leveling of land for construction, especially of roads and railways * Grade separation, aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights to facilitate traffic flow * Cetane rating, a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality * Octane rating, 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, the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image * A rating of Lumber#Grades and standards, lumber (timber) quality and strength

Mathematics

* Grade (angle), a unit for the measurement of plane angles * Graded (mathematics), with several meanings * Graded poset, a partially ordered set equipped with a rank function, sometimes called a ranked poset * Graded vector space, a vector space with an extra piece of structure * Graded algebra, an algebra over a field (or ring) with an extra piece of structure

Linguistics

* Grade, each of the "levels" of vowel gradation, especially Indo-European ablaut, in Indo-European * Grade, or degree, one of the Adjective#Comparison_(degrees), comparative forms of an adjective

Sport

* Grade (climbing), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill * Grade (bouldering), 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 degree of seriousness of a crime * Military rank * Grade (surname) (includes a list of people with the name) * Grade, Cornwall, a village in the UK * Coin grading, 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, the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry