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Also known as valency, vertex degree, degree of a vertex

number of edges incident to a given vertex in a node-link graph

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A graph with a loop having vertices labeled by degree

In graph theory, the degree (or valency) of a vertex of a graph is the number of edges that are incident to the vertex; in a multigraph, a loop contributes 2 to a vertex's degree, for the two ends of the edge. The degree of a vertex

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “degree” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.