Degrees

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The degree is one of the units of angle; one full turn divided into 360 equal parts is 1 degree.
It corresponds to 1/360 of the circumference of a circle, and its symbol is °.

Another related term is the sexagesimal system, used in the sense that 60 minutes make 1 degree. ¹