Noun

Singular grade

Plural grades

grade (plural grades)

1. A rating.

   I gave him a good grade for effort.

2. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.

   This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.

3. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

   The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent

4. (North American, education) A level of pre-collegiate education.

   Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year. (US)

   Clancy starts grade five this year. (Canada)

5. (Canadian, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).

   The grade fives are on a field trip.

6. An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
7. The level of the ground.

   This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.

Related terms

• gradient

Grade may refer to:

In education

• Grade (education), a teacher's evaluation of a student's performance
• Educational stages, also called grade level, the numbering of the year a student has reached in school.

In civil engineering

• Grade (slope), the pitch of a slope such as a hill, road or railway
• Land grading, the preparation and levelling of land for construction, especially of roads and railways
• Grade separation, aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights to facilitate traffic flow.

In pure mathematics

• Graded vector space, a vector space with an extra piece of structure
• Graded algebra, an algebra over a field (or ring) with an extra piece of structure