Definition of Degree of freedom

1. Noun. (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution.

Generic synonyms: Variable, Variable Quantity
Category relationships: Statistics

2. Noun. One of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system.
Generic synonyms: Parameter, Parametric Quantity

Definition of Degree of freedom

1. Noun. (physics) Any of the coordinates, a minimum number of which are needed to specify the motion of a mechanical system ¹

2. Noun. (physics) Any of the independent variables required to specify the thermodynamic state of a system containing components and phases ¹

3. Noun. (mathematics) Any unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degree Of Freedom

degreasing
degreasings
degree
degree-day
degree Celsius
degree Centigrade
degree Fahrenheit
degree Kelvin
degree Rankine
degree absolute
degree day
degree days
degree mill
degree of a polynomial
degree of a term
degree of freedom (current term)
degree of glory
degree of ionization
degree program
degreed
degreeless
degreelessness
degrees
degrees Celsius
degrees Fahrenheit
degrees Kelvin
degrees of comparison
degrees of freedom
degressive
degressively

Literary usage of Degree of freedom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Individualization of Punishment by Raymond ( Saleilles (1911)
"Responsibility proportioned to the Degree of Freedom; Irresponsibility and its Establishment Let us now turn to the formulated conclusions. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"-When the value of one is assigned, say by xa, the point is said to have lost one degree of freedom, or to have had imposed upon it one " degree of ..."

3. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1905)
"Oscillations with One Degree of Freedom. 432. WHEN a system of bodies admits of only one independent motion and is making small oscillations about some mean ..."

4. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1813)
"... the bloody inquisition has displayed all the terrors of its sanguinary spirit, was once a land of piety, where a good degree of freedom was enjoyed. ..."

5. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1885)
"... and there can be no rotation except round this fixed line, and so there can be only one degree of freedom, which corresponds to that rotation. ..."

6. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"These unbridled acts constituted the third or superlative Degree of Freedom, according to Burke's ..."

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