first degree

1. 1.

   a degree of one

   “all of the terms in a linear equation are of the first degree”

   Broaderdegree

Questions about first degree

What does first degree mean?

first degree means "a degree of one".

Is first degree a common word?

first degree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.