<Li> "I will be brief: your noble son is mad: / Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, / What is 't but to be nothing else but mad?"--Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) </Li> <Li> "Beyond the garage were some decorative trees trimmed as carefully as poodle dogs ."--Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep . </Li> <Li> "Let me tell you this, when social workers offer you, free, gratis and for nothing, something to hinder you from swooning, which with them is an obsession, it is useless to recoil ..."--Samuel Beckett, Molloy . </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed . (September 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table>

The word degree has more than one meaning. what does the word mean in the sentence