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noun (n)

• the successful completion of a program of study(noun.act)

  source: wordnet30
• an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred(noun.event)

  Synonym:
  commencement, commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation exercise
  

  source: wordnet30
• a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement(noun.communication)

  Example:
  The ruler had 16 graduations per inch.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the act of arranging in grades(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  gradation
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.(noun)

  source: webster1913