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English

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Etymology

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From graduate +‎ -ion.[1]

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɡɹædjuˈeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

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graduation (countable and uncountable, plural graduations)

1. The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution). The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other. After my graduation, I took a year out to travel, then went into an office job.
2. A commencement ceremony.
3. (Japanese entertainment) The action or process of leaving a group. graduation from AKB48
4. (sciences) A marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement on a scale, usually one of many such markings; the making of such marks.
5. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.

Derived terms

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• BUG
• congradulations
• graduational
• graduation mark
• graduation party
• GUG
• lesbian until graduation
• LUG
• nongraduation
• postgraduation
• pregraduation

Translations

[edit] the action or process of graduating

Arabic: تَخَرُّج m (taḵarruj) Bulgarian: абсолви́ране n (absolvírane) Chinese: Cantonese: 畢業 / 毕业 (bat1 jip6) Hokkien: 畢業 / 毕业 (zh-min-nan) (pit-gia̍p) Mandarin: 畢業 / 毕业 (zh) (bìyè) Czech: promoce f Finnish: valmistuminen (fi) German: Abschluss (de) m Greek: αποφοίτηση (el) f (apofoítisi) Hindi: स्नातक (hi) m (snātak), दीक्षान्त (hi) m (dīkṣānt) Hungarian: diplomaszerzés (hu), diplomázás, lediplomázás, egyetem/főiskola elvégzése, (from high school) középiskola elvégzése Indonesian: kelulusan (id), graduasi Italian: graduazione f Japanese: 卒業 (ja) (そつぎょう, sotsugyō) Korean: 졸업(卒業) (ko) (joreop) Malay: graduasi Māori: whakapōtaetanga, whakawhiwhinga Navajo: daʼiiłtááh Persian: فارغ‌التحصیلی (fâreġ-ot-tahsili) Portuguese: formatura (pt) f Russian: оконча́ние (ru) n (okončánije) (уче́бного заведе́ния) Scottish Gaelic: ceumnachadh m Slovene: matura f Spanish: graduación (es) f Tagalog: pagtatapos Turkish: mezuniyet (tr)

a commencement ceremony

Chinese: Mandarin: 畢業典禮 / 毕业典礼 (bìyè diǎnlǐ) Czech: promoce f Dutch: diploma-uitreiking (nl) Finnish: valmistujaiset (fi) French: remise des diplômes (fr) German: Abschlussfeier (de) f Greek: αποφοίτηση (el) f (apofoítisi), τελετή αποφοίτησης f (teletí apofoítisis) Hindi: दीक्षान्त समारोह m (dīkṣānt samāroh) Hungarian: diplomaosztás, diplomaosztó/diplomaátadó ünnepség/ünnepély, (from primary school or high school) ballagás (hu) Indonesian: wisuda (id) Italian: graduazione f Japanese: 卒業式 (ja) (そつぎょうしき, sotsugyōshiki) Korean: 졸업식(卒業式) (joreopsik) Malay: konvokesyen (ms), majlis graduasi, majlis penyampaian ijazah Persian: جشن فارغ‌التحصیلی (jašn-e fâreġ-ot-tahsili) Portuguese: graduação (pt) f, cerimônia de colação de grau f Russian: церемо́ния (ru) f (ceremónija) (вруче́ния дипло́мов) Scottish Gaelic: ceumnachadh m Spanish: graduación (es) f Tagalog: pagtatapos Turkish: mezuniyet (tr), mezuniyet töreni Vietnamese: lễ tốt nghiệp

a marking (i.e. on a container) indicating a measurement

Bulgarian: градуи́ране n (graduírane) Chinese: Mandarin: 刻度 (zh) (kèdù) Finnish: asteikko (fi) French: graduation (fr) f German: Graduierung f Hungarian: fokbeosztás (hu), fokjelölés, fokozatokra osztás Indonesian: graduasi Italian: graduazione f Japanese: 目盛り (ja) (めもり, memori) Polish: wskaz (pl) m Portuguese: graduação (pt) f Russian: градуиро́вка (ru) f (graduiróvka), деле́ния (ru) n pl (delénija) Spanish: graduación (es) f

the exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked

Interlingua: (please verify) graduation Portuguese: (please verify) graduação (pt) f Spanish: (please verify) graduación (es)

See also

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• (measurement markings or their making): graticulation, gradation

References

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1. ^ “graduation”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

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• argonautid

French

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Etymology

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From graduer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

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graduation f (plural graduations)

1. graduation (marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement, usually one of many such markings that are each separated by a constant interval)
2. the process of creating such markings
3. encoding of a sound or image producing a digital signal of which one may use a greater or lesser part corresponding to better or worse quality

Further reading

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• “graduation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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