graduating

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc. [1913 Webster]

2.To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College. [1913 Webster]

3.To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. [1913 Webster]

Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.— Browne.[1913 Webster]

4.(Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid. [1913 Webster]

Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing. [1913 Webster]