GRADUATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does graduation mean?
• GRADUATION (noun)
The noun GRADUATION has 4 senses:
1. the successful completion of a program of study
2. an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
3. a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement
4. the act of arranging in grades
Familiarity information: GRADUATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• GRADUATION (noun)
Meaning:
The successful completion of a program of study
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("graduation" is a kind of...):
closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup (a concluding action)
Meaning:
An academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
commencement ceremony; commencement exercise; graduation exercise; commencement; graduation
Hypernyms ("graduation" is a kind of...):
exercise ((usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches)
Meronyms (parts of "graduation"):
baccalaureate (a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies)
Meaning:
A line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the ruler had 16 graduations per inch
Hypernyms ("graduation" is a kind of...):
line (a mark that is long relative to its width)
Meaning:
The act of arranging in grades
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
gradation; graduation
Hypernyms ("graduation" is a kind of...):
quantification (the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graduation"):
blending; shading (a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades)
