degree

Also known as degree of arc, arcdegree, °, angular degree

angle unit; π/180 radians

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A degree is a unit of measurement used to describe the size of an angle, where 360 degrees make a complete circle. One degree equals π/180 radians, which is the mathematical way of expressing the same angle measurement.

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Instance of: non-SI unit mentioned in and accepted with the SI
Image: Độ (góc)-Degree (angle).svg

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maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
conversion to standard unit: 240
Commons category: Degree (angle)
notation: °
measured physical quantity: angular measure
conversion to SI unit: 0.01745329251994329576923690768488612713
unit symbol: °
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent: wd:Q28390 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
different from: degree
subdivision of this unit: arcminute
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a unit of measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is assigned the value of 360 degrees.

It is not an SI unit—the SI unit of angular measure is the radian—but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit. Because a full rotation equals 2π radians, one degree is equivalent to ⁠π/180⁠ radians.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “degree” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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