Intensity vs. Degree — What's the Difference?

Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.

The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present

(Physics) The amount or degree of strength of electricity, light, heat, or sound per unit area or volume.

A unit of measurement of angles, one ninetieth of a right angle or the angle subtended by one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle

The strength of a color, especially the degree to which it lacks its complementary color.

A unit in any of various scales of temperature, intensity, or hardness

See saturation.

An academic rank conferred by a college or university after examination or after completion of a course, or conferred as an honour on a distinguished person

The quality of being intense.

Social or official rank

The degree of strength.

One of a series of steps in a process, course, or progression; a stage

(physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.

A step in a direct hereditary line of descent or ascent

(optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.

Relative social or official rank, dignity, or position.

(astronomy) radiance.

Relative intensity or amount, as of a quality or attribute

(geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.

The extent or measure of a state of being, an action, or a relation

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

A unit division of a temperature scale.

The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.

(Mathematics) A planar unit of angular measure equal in magnitude to 1/360 of a complete revolution.

The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.

A unit of latitude or longitude, equal to 1/360 of a great circle.

The degree or depth of color or shade in a picture.

The greatest sum of the exponents of the variables in a term of a polynomial or polynomial equation.

The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation);

The exponent of the derivative of highest order in a differential equation in standard form.

High level or degree; the property of being intense

An academic title given by a college or university to a student who has completed a course of study

The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);

A similar title conferred as an honorary distinction.

Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue

(Law) A division or classification of a specific crime according to its seriousness

A classification of the severity of an injury, especially a burn

(Grammar) One of the forms used in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs. For example, tall is the positive degree, taller the comparative degree, and tallest the superlative degree of the adjective tall.

One of the seven notes of a diatonic scale.

A space or line of the staff.

A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)

(geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 360 of a circle's circumference.

(physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.

(algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.

The dimensionality of a field extension.

(graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.

(logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.

(surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.

(geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.

(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.

A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.

(genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.

One's relative state or experience; way, manner.

The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.

A step, stair, or staircase.

One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.

Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.

Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; also, (informal) the diploma provided by an educational institution attesting to the achievement of that rank; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.; to hang one's degrees on the office wall.

A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.

Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.

State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.

A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality;

A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;

An award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study;

A unit of temperature on a specified scale;

A measure for arcs and angles;

The highest power of a term or variable

The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime);