GRADUATED

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

2.
a.

Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.


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