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1. The successful completion of a program of study
    
2. An academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
   - commencement, commencement exercise, commencement ceremony, graduation exercise
    
3. A line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement
   "the ruler had 16 graduations per inch"
    
4. The act of arranging in grades
   - gradation

Derived forms: graduations

See also: graduate

Type of: closing, completion, culmination, exercise, line, mop up, quantification, windup

Encyclopedia: Graduation Graduation, Part 1 Graduation, Part 2