Grade

Grade most commonly refers to:
 * Grading in education, a measurement of a student's performance
 * Grade, the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage
 * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope
 * Graded voting

Grade or grading may also refer to:

Music

 * Grade (music), a formally assessed level of profiency in a musical instrument
 * Grade (band), punk rock band
 * Grades (producer), British electronic dance music producer and DJ

Biology and medicine

 * Grading (tumors), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine
 * The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach
 * Evolutionary grade, a paraphyletic group of organisms

Geology

 * Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock
 * Metamorphic grade, an indicatation of the degree of metamorphism of rocks
 * Ore grade, a measure that describes the concentration of a valuable natural material in the surrounding ore

Engineering and technology

 * Grade (fasteners), the grade of nuts and bolts refers to the strength and material
 * Grading (earthworks), the preparation and leveling of land for construction, especially of roads and railways
 * Grade separation, aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights to facilitate traffic flow
 * Cetane rating, a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality
 * Octane rating, also called gasoline grade, the measure of the autoignition resistance of gasoline (petrol) and other fuels used in spark-ignition internal combustion engines
 * Grade of service, the quality of voice service in telecommunications
 * Color grading, the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image
 * A rating of lumber (timber) quality and strength

Mathematics

 * Grade (angle), a unit for the measurement of plane angles
 * Grade (ring theory), a cohomological invariant in commutative algebra
 * Graded (mathematics), with several meanings
 * Graded poset, a partially ordered set equipped with a rank function, sometimes called a ranked poset
 * Graded vector space, a vector space with an extra piece of structure
 * Graded algebra, an algebra over a field (or ring) with an extra piece of structure

Linguistics

 * Grade, each of the "levels" of vowel gradation, especially in Indo-European
 * Grade, or degree, one of the comparative forms of an adjective

Sport

 * Grade (climbing), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill
 * Grade (bouldering), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a route which are distinct from those used in regular climbing
 * Degree of difficulty, in several sports
 * International Scale of River Difficulty, also called grade, a standardized scale used to rate the safety of a stretch of river, or a single rapid

Other uses

 * Grade (crime), the degree of seriousness of a crime
 * Military rank
 * Grade (surname) (includes a list of people with the name)
 * Grade, Cornwall, a village in the UK
 * Coin grading, the process of determining the grade or condition of a coin, the key factor in its value
 * Food grading, the inspection, assessment and sorting of foods to determine quality, freshness, legal conformity and market value
 * Pattern grading, the scaling of a pattern to a different size in the clothing or footwear industry