Degree (angle)
| degree | |
|---|---|
One degree (shown in red) and eighty nine degrees (shown in blue). The lined area is a right angle. | |
| General information | |
| Unit system | Non-SI metric unit |
| Unit of | Angle |
| Symbol | °, deg |
| Conversions | |
| 1° in ... | ... is equal to ... |
| turns | 1/360 turn |
| radians | π/180 rad ≈ 0.01745... rad |
| milliradians | 50π/9 mrad ≈ 17.45... mrad |
| gradians | 10/9g |
| arcminutes | 60′ |
| arcseconds | 3600″ |
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a unit of measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is assigned the value of 360 degrees. The unit of angular measure in the International System of Units (SI) is the radian, and one degree is equivalent to π/180 radians.