multigrade

Works across viscosities

Multigrade describes something spanning multiple grades or levels.

Most commonly it refers to motor oil formulated to perform across a range of temperatures—a multigrade oil like 10W-40 flows well when cold and maintains viscosity when hot.

In education, a multigrade classroom combines students from different grade levels: She taught a multigrade class of third and fourth graders.

oil

lubricant

Friction-reducing substance

  • motorEnergy-to-motion converter
  • engineMachine producing motion
  • SAEVehicle engineering standards body

10W-30 · 5W-20 · synthetic · conventional · viscosity · temperature · automotive · diesel · petroleum · additives

education

classroom

Educational instruction space

curriculum · differentiation · individualized · mentorship · heterogeneous · inclusion · cooperative · tutoring · adaptation · progressive

Categories
Opposites
compositional uniformity

multigradeunblended

Not combined with others

educational grouping

multigradegraded

Assigned a score

Family

grade, multiple, multi, multilevel

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Top 500,000
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