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–noun
1. Statistics. any of the statistically independent values of a sample that are used to determine a property of the sample, as the mean or variance.
2. Physical Chemistry. any of the independent variables required to specify the energy of a molecule or atom.
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degree of freedom  
n.   pl. degrees of freedom

  1. Statistics Any of the unrestricted, independent random variables that constitute a statistic.

  2. Physics

    1. Any of the minimum number of coordinates required to specify completely the motion of a mechanical system.

    2. Any of the independent thermodynamic variables, such as pressure, temperature, or composition, required to specify a system with a given number of phases and components.

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degree of freedom

in mathematics, any of the number of independent quantities necessary to express the values of all the variable properties of a system. A system composed of a point moving without constraints in space, for example, has three degrees of freedom because three coordinates are needed to determine the position of the point

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