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1. Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
   "She graduated in 1990"
    
2. Confer an academic degree upon
   "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
    
3. Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
   "graduate a cylinder"
   - calibrate, fine-tune

1. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
   - alumnus, alumna, alum, grad
    
2. A measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts

1. Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
   "graduate courses"
   - postgraduate

Derived forms: graduates, graduating, graduated

See also: graduation, high

Type of: adjust, bestow, bookman, confer, correct, have, measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system, receive, scholar, scholarly person, set, student

Encyclopedia: Graduate