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DEGREE ( Definition & Legal Meaning

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1.The unit of an angle or arc. It can be 60 min, 3600 sec, 0.017 radian, or 1/360 of a circle. As for the earths surface it is 60 nautical miles or 111.12 km. 2. temperature on a decimal scale. Refer to celcius scale and fahrenheit scale. 3. the density o

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