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    deg.
    abbreviation
    degree; degrees.
  • deg
    deg
    verb
    to water (a plant, etc)

deg.

American  

abbreviation

  1. degree; degrees.


deg. 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. degree

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

deg 2 British  
/ dɛɡ /

verb

  1. dialect to water (a plant, etc)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Caution: jaywalking some sts punishable $5 fine; Avge mean temp: 80 deg. summer, 45 deg. winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

At nine o’clock on the morning of December 4th the thermometer stood at 16 deg.; the reading of the same instrument, in the same place, at eleven a.m. on December 6th was 60 deg. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

The heat was sometimes as high as 130 deg. in the shade, and in the sun it was altogether intolerable.

From History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 by Alexander Sutherland

No. 1 should be made to register Beaumé's scale, 45 deg., the percentage of perchloride in this solution is 47, and the specific gravity 1.444.

From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney

This is an open place, without walls or castle, situate in 19 deg. latitude.

From The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by George Alfred Williams

So I thought the deg was going to be massive for us.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Lambiase warned him: "This tyre had reasonable deg in the first stint; I'd advise you to use your head a bit more."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2023

Click on the tab farthest to the right, labeled “Days Above 90 deg F in 2050.”

From The Verge Jul. 26, 2022

What is the linear speed the angular speed in RPM, and the angular speed in deg/ s?

From Textbooks Dec. 1, 2021

Cooling water at the inlet of the cylinder-head 55.4 deg.

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