graduation

English

Etymology

From graduate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɹædjuˈeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

graduation (countable and uncountable, plural graduations)

1. The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution).

   The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other.

   After my graduation, I took a year out to travel, then went into an office job.

2. A commencement ceremony.
3. (Japanese entertainment) The action or process of leaving a group.

   graduation from AKB48

4. (sciences) A marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement on a scale, usually one of many such markings; the making of such marks.
5. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
6. Synonym of gradation.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     "No good, I'm afraid," he confessed before he took it. "A print of this sort is one of the few things that afford no graduation to the sense of touch. No, no"—as he passed his finger-tips over the paper—"a gelatino-chloride surface of mathematical uniformity, Inspector, and nothing more. Now had it been the negative—"

Derived terms

• BUG
• congradulations
• graduational
• graduation mark
• graduation party
• GUG
• lesbian until graduation
• LUG
• nongraduation
• postgraduation
• pregraduation

Translations

the action or process of graduating

• Arabic: تَخَرُّج m (taḵarruj)
• Bulgarian: абсолви́ране n (absolvírane)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 畢業 / 毕业 (bat¹ jip⁶)

  Hokkien: 畢業 / 毕业 (zh-min-nan) (pit-gia̍p)

  Mandarin: 畢業 / 毕业 (zh) (bìyè)

• Czech: promoce f
• Finnish: valmistuminen (fi)
• German: Abschluss (de) m
• Greek: αποφοίτηση (el) f (apofoítisi)
• Hindi: स्नातक (hi) m (snātak), दीक्षान्त (hi) m (dīkṣānt)
• Hungarian: diplomaszerzés (hu), diplomázás, lediplomázás, egyetem/főiskola elvégzése, (from high school) középiskola elvégzése
• Indonesian: kelulusan (id), graduasi
• Italian: graduazione f
• Japanese: 卒業 (ja) (そつぎょう, sotsugyō)
• Korean: 졸업(卒業) (ko) (joreop)
• Malay: graduasi
• Māori: whakapōtaetanga, whakawhiwhinga
• Navajo: daʼiiłtááh
• Persian: فارغ‌التحصیلی (fâreġ-ot-tahsili)
• Portuguese: formatura (pt) f
• Russian: оконча́ние (ru) n (okončánije) (уче́бного заведе́ния)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceumnachadh m
• Slovene: matura f
• Spanish: graduación (es) f
• Tagalog: pagtatapos
• Turkish: mezuniyet (tr)

a commencement ceremony

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 畢業典禮 / 毕业典礼 (bìyè diǎnlǐ)

• Czech: promoce f
• Dutch: diploma-uitreiking (nl)
• Finnish: valmistujaiset (fi)
• French: remise des diplômes (fr)
• German: Abschlussfeier (de) f
• Greek: αποφοίτηση (el) f (apofoítisi), τελετή αποφοίτησης f (teletí apofoítisis)
• Hindi: दीक्षान्त समारोह m (dīkṣānt samāroh)
• Hungarian: diplomaosztás, diplomaosztó/diplomaátadó ünnepség/ünnepély, (from primary school or high school) ballagás (hu)
• Indonesian: wisuda (id)
• Italian: graduazione f
• Japanese: 卒業式 (ja) (そつぎょうしき, sotsugyōshiki)
• Korean: 졸업식(卒業式) (joreopsik)
• Malay: konvokesyen (ms), majlis graduasi, majlis penyampaian ijazah
• Persian: جشن فارغ‌التحصیلی (jašn-e fâreġ-ot-tahsili)
• Portuguese: graduação (pt) f, cerimônia de colação de grau f
• Russian: церемо́ния (ru) f (ceremónija) (вруче́ния дипло́мов)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceumnachadh m
• Spanish: graduación (es) f
• Tagalog: pagtatapos
• Turkish: mezuniyet (tr), mezuniyet töreni
• Vietnamese: lễ tốt nghiệp

a marking (i.e. on a container) indicating a measurement

• Bulgarian: градуи́ране n (graduírane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刻度 (zh) (kèdù)

• Finnish: asteikko (fi)
• French: graduation (fr) f
• German: Graduierung f
• Hungarian: fokbeosztás (hu), fokjelölés, fokozatokra osztás
• Indonesian: graduasi
• Italian: graduazione f
• Japanese: 目盛り (ja) (めもり, memori)
• Polish: wskaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: graduação (pt) f
• Russian: градуиро́вка (ru) f (graduiróvka), деле́ния (ru) n pl (delénija)
• Spanish: graduación (es) f

the exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} graduation
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} graduação (pt) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} graduación (es)

See also

• (measurement markings or their making): graticulation, gradation

Anagrams

• argonautid

French

Etymology

From graduer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

graduation f (plural graduations)

1. graduation (marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement, usually one of many such markings that are each separated by a constant interval)
2. the process of creating such markings
3. encoding of a sound or image producing a digital signal of which one may use a greater or lesser part corresponding to better or worse quality

Further reading

• “graduation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012