The Clue
Like rulers (9 letter answer)
The Answer
GRADUATED
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Notes
The answer GRADUATED is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
GRADUATE as a verb:
1. receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"
2. confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
3. (calibrate, graduate, fine-tune) = make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
GRADUATED as an adjective:
1. (graduated, proportional) = (of taxes) increasing as the amount taxed increases
2. (calibrated, graduated) = marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer"
3. (of taxes) decreasing as the amount taxed increases
4. (gradational, gradatory, graduated) = taking place by degrees