0 used to describe a crime that is not the most serious of its type, for example because it was not planned: --
Now, would it be reasonable to compel somebody with a second-degree burn on his shoulders to drive back with his seat belt on?
First degree silicosis develops within five years; at the age of 30 there is second-degree silicosis.
The final path is a straight line between the two points, except in the proximity of the extreme points, where a second-degree polynomial allows the speed to be progressively altered.
If the first-degree vaccine was too strong, it could produce vaccination accidents; if it was too weak, there were likely to be accidents with the second-degree vaccination.
In particular, the genealogical data are inconsistent in quality; at best, details of first- and second-degree relatives are available with data also on greatgrandparents when the parents are first-cousins.
Numerous clergymen had been chosen as second-degree electors in 1790 and many of them responded to the invitation to nominate a bishop, including the odd refractory.
Nonsiblings in this study were usually second-degree relatives such as cousins, and the number of unrelated non-siblings was too small to distinguish these sources of non-sibling exposure.
Early health survey data collected by the project revealed that nearly 50% of those children studied between ages 1 and 3 suffered from first- and second-degree malnutrition.
