graduated Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
    graduate.
    • She graduated in 1990
  2. verb confer an academic degree upon
    graduate.
    • This school graduates 2,000 students each year
  3. verb make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
    fine-tune; calibrate; graduate.
    • calibrate an instrument
    • graduate a cylinder
  4. adjective marked with or divided into degrees
    calibrated.
    • a calibrated thermometer
  5. adjective satellite taking place by degrees
    gradational; gradatory.

WordNet

Grad"u*a"ted adjective
Definitions
  1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
  2. (Zoöl.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.

Webster 1913