Third degree
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Third degree has these meanings:
- In police interrogation, originally torture, then colloquially an intensive rough interrogation to extract information or a confession - the term "Third Degree" being an ironic reference to the Masonic ritual which involves a (symbolic) severe interrogation and beating.
- In Freemasonry, the test to become a Master Mason
- In USA law, the least serious of the three classifications of murder, burglary, or other felonies
- In Medicine, the highest severity of burn or heart block
- In Mathematics, degree has several meanings that third degree applies to:
- in algebra, a cubic equation
- in graph theory, a vertex with three incident edges
- Also a series of adult movies[3rd Degree Films]
- See also 3rd Degree
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