Grade

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Grade may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Grading (education), a teacher's evaluation of a student's performance in class
Grade level, educational stage, the numbering of the year a student has reached in school
Grade (music), a method of formally assessing the accomplishments of pupils learning musical instruments

Grade (fasteners), the grade of nuts and bolts refers to the strength and material
Grade (slope), the angle of a slope such as a hill, road or railway
Grade level, or ground level
Grading (engineering), 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
Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock
Grades and standards, a rating of lumber (timber) quality and strength
Ore grade, a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore
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, a color balancing process used in video post-production

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

Grade (consulting), a recognized professional level
Grade, a title applied to the insignia worn as in a military organization
Grade, also mistakenly called 'military rank', in the US Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and/or Civil Air Patrol

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

Grade (surname)
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
Pattern grading, the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry
Grade, an alternate vowel sound within a word in apophony
Gradable and ungradable adjectives