The phrase "alter the degree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in intensity, level, or extent of something, such as temperature, difficulty, or quality.
Example: "To improve the experiment's accuracy, we need to alter the degree of heat applied to the solution."
Alternatives: "change the level" or "adjust the intensity."
"If you can suddenly alter the degree of ordering of all these little spins, then you get a large response," says Sandeman.
With the 3-D printer, the researchers were able to make springboards of different thicknesses to alter the degree of curling, optimizing the movement.
Affected pianists can often "play" if they do it on a tabletop, rather than on a keyboard — or if they wear rubber gloves, or if the keys they press don't make sounds, or if they alter the degree to which they curve or extend their fingers — and guitarists and violinists can sometimes flawlessly manipulate instruments that have no strings.
A geriatric consultation team was unable to alter the degree of functional decline.
The body changes as it ages, which can alter the degree to which a drug accumulates and the severity of the side effects it produces.
Although the state of frictional condition changes toward the dip direction, such structural heterogeneity could locally alter the degree of interplate coupling and the state of slip along the trench axis.
These results provide theoretical constraints on the spontaneous generation of order in the distributions of proteins within cells and imply that work done by maintaining oxidation-reduction gradients can selectively alter the degrees of formation of assemblages of proteins.
The number of hydrolyzable ester bonds in the formed crosslinks may be controlled by altering the degree of methacrylation on the alginate polymer backbone.
These changes in hillslope morphology have altered the degree to which soil erosion processes operating in these areas are spatially coupled.
Preformulation design variables indicated that relative ratios of phospholipids, considerably influences NL size, thus altering the degree of drug loading in the formulation.
These act primarily by varying the heart's pulse rate, amplitude, or stroke volume and by altering the degree of dilation or constriction of the peripheral blood vessels (i.e., those blood vessels near the surface of the body).
