It is hard to quantify relative degrees of misery and pain in these circumstances.

Value is the relative degree of lightness in the graphic work of art or painting.

On the other hand, a relative degree of economic equality is good for social peace and - according to researchers - for personal well-being.

If you are a homeless and hopeless addict it is actually quite difficult to find a relative degree of privacy to satisfy your cravings.

While there was a relative degree of interstate rivalry, peoples generally intermingled freely.

It's a fair exchange, considering the relative degrees of military effort.

The relative degree of emphasis on meditation or study has often been debated in the Buddhist community.

To do this, we introduce the notion of relative degree.

For the discussion that follows, we will assume that the relative degree of the system is .

Feedback linearization can be accomplished with systems that have relative degree less than .