Grade often refers to:

  • Grading in education, a student's performance as determined by an educational assessment (e.g. A, pass, etc.)
  • A designation for students, classes and curricula indicating the amount of years a student has completed in an educational stage (e.g. first grade, second grade, K–12, etc.)
  • Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope
  • Graded voting

Grade or grading may also refer to:

Music

  • Grade (music), a formally assessed level of proficiency 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 indication 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
  • 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 (timber) quality and strength

Mathematics

  • Grade (angle), a unit for the measurement of plane angles
  • Grade (ring theory), a cohomological invariant in commutative algebra
  • 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 in Indo-European
  • Grade, or degree, one of the 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 condition of a collectible coin
  • Food grading, the inspection, assessment and sorting of foods to determine quality, freshness, legal conformity and market value
  • Paper currency grading, the process of determining the condition of a collectible bank note
  • Pattern grading, the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry

See also

  • Degree (disambiguation)
  • Grad (disambiguation)
  • Gradation (disambiguation)
  • Gradient
  • grade nouveau
  • Rank (disambiguation)
  • Rating (disambiguation)