GRADUATION

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

graduate (confer an academic degree upon)

graduate (receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

commencement; commencement ceremony; commencement exercise; graduation; graduation exercise

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)

Derivation:

graduate (confer an academic degree upon)

graduate (receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies)

Sense 3

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)

Derivation:

graduate (make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring)

Sense 4

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)

 Context examples 

This kind of degree is for students who intend to enter the work force upon graduation.

(Associate of Applied Science, NCI Thesaurus)