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aste

Pronunciation: /ˈɑsteˣ/

“aste” is a Finnish word. Its 16 meanings in English:

noun

  1. stage, step, state, phase (distinct part of a process)
  2. degree, extent, proportion
  3. degree (individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values)
  4. instance (occasion; order of occurrence)
  5. degree (unit of measurement of angle)
  6. degree (unit of measurement of temperature)
  7. degree (unit of measurement of latitude and longitude)
  8. degree, grade (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb)
  9. grade (form of a consonant under the system of consonant gradation)
  10. scale degree
  11. degree, order (maximal exponent of a polynomial)
  12. degree (the number of edges that a vertex takes part in)
  13. order (number of vertices in a graph)
  14. grade (number of free intersection points)
  15. grade (degree of malignity of a tumor)
  16. rank (maximal number of linearly independent columns or rows of a matrix)

Etymology

astua (“to step”) + -e. Coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1846, based on dialectal “step (in stairs)”, cases of which was also used as adverbs with more figurative meanings like those currently used.

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