Sentence examples for series of degrees from inspiring English sources

The Scottish Rite is a series of degrees awarded by Masonic groups; it is not the Scottish branch of the Masons.

Those in a Thelemic magical Order, such as the A∴A∴, or Ordo Templi Orientis, work through a series of degrees or grades via a process of initiation.

Aikido practitioners (commonly called aikidōka outside of Japan) generally progress by promotion through a series of "grades" (kyū), followed by a series of "degrees" (dan), pursuant to formal testing procedures.

Models representing the v-membranes were bent to a series of degrees to reflect spontaneous curvatures of vesicles.

Furthermore, the required single epoch spherical harmonic model coefficients were derived from parent models that used a range of time durations (1 month to 12 years), temporal parameterizations (including Taylor series of degree 0 to 2, splines of order 1 to 6), and external field parameterizations of varying complexity.

Figure 3 plots the time-series of degree distributions for that subset with a changing degree, with individual panels for those with a maximum degree of one (46%), two (40%), or three (14%).

Franco eventually returned to UCLA, graduating with a bachelor's degree in creative writing (2008), and he pursued a series of further degrees, among them a master's in writing (2010) from Columbia University and a master's in film (2011) from New York University.

It was only after going to the United States to pursue a series of graduate degrees — an M.B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School; at Harvard, a law degree (he already had one from McGill) and a Ph.D. in business (he never completed it) — that his distaste for the law evolved into a reluctance to return home, and that his homesickness turned into a kind of resolve.

Subsequently, maternal blood was added to produce a series of varying degrees of artificial contamination ranging from 0% to 5% (vol/vol).

Belief is measured along a series of linguistic degrees, e.g., strongly believes, fairly confidently believes, somewhat disbelieves, etc., and knowledge is taken as unequivocal belief.

With a complex series of four degrees of initiation that were held within an especially constructed medicine lodge, the society's central acts involved the ritual death and rebirth of the initiate.