| Noun | 1. | graduation - the successful completion of a program of study | |
| 2. | graduation - an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferredbaccalaureate - a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies exercise - (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches; "academic exercises" | |
| 3. | graduation - a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement; "the ruler had 16 graduations per inch"line - a mark that is long relative to its width; "He drew a line on the chart"; "The substance produced characteristic lines on the spectroscope" | |
| 4. | graduation - the act of arranging in gradesquantification - the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something blending, shading - a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | |