graduation

noun

Etymology: From graduate + -ion.

1. The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution).

   “The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other.”

   “After my graduation, I took a year out to travel, then went into an office job.”

2. A commencement ceremony.
3. The action or process of leaving a group.

   “graduation from AKB48”

4. A marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement on a scale, usually one of many such markings; the making of such marks.
5. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
6. Synonym of gradation.

   “"No good, I'm afraid," he confessed before he took it. "A print of this sort is one of the few things that afford no graduation to the sense of touch. No, no"—as he passed his finger-tips over the paper—"a gelatino-chloride surface of mathematical uniformity, Inspector, and nothing more. Now had it been the negative—"”