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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Graduated}p. pr. & vb. n. {Graduating}.] [Cf. F. graduer. See {Graduate}, noun, {Grade}.]
1. To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
2. To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
3. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. --Browne.
4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
{Graduating engine}, a dividing engine. See {Dividing} engine, under {Dividing}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Graduated \Grad"u*a"ted\, adjective
1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
3. Having visible marks and numbers at vertical intervals, permitting one to estimate the quantitity of material contained; -- of vessels, most commonly those used in laboratories for containing liquids. See {graduated cylinder}, etc., below. [PJC]
{Graduated cylinder}, {Graduated flask}, {Graduated tube}, {Graduated bottle}, {Graduated cap}, {Graduated glass} a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels.
{Graduated spring} (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
graduated
adjective
1: increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: {proportional}]
2: marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer" [syn: {calibrated}]
3: decreasing as the amount taxed increases
4: slowly and smoothly [syn: {gradational}, {gradatory}]
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