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Admission to a group (especially a college or university)
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matriculation
Word definitions for matriculation in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, noun of action from matriculate (v.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 enrollment in a college or university 2 A pass in some university examinations 3 (context Scotland English) A registration of armorial bearings
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matriculation \Ma*tric`u*la"tion\, n. The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. admission to a group (especially a college or university) [syn: matric ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Matriculation is the formal process of entering a university , or of becoming eligible to enter by fulfilling certain academic requirements such as a matriculation examination .
Usage examples of matriculation.
The Bolshevik coup timed itself so that Vladimir could just squeeze in his matriculation exams, and when a second Communist incursion drove the Nabokovs on from the Crimea, the family headed for England, and Vladimir and Sergey straight for Cambridge and Oxford, respectively.
Jack the Bodiless absorbed every single academic discipline that Dartmouth College had to offer within three years of matriculation, and then turned his voracious, polymathic young mind loose upon other top institutions of learning.
I saw nothing of Charlie during the actual examinations, because he was sitting the Junior Matriculation tests and I was in the Senior rank from which, if I were successful, I would enter on university work without having to do the obligatory First Year, during which attempts are made to teach people who will never do so in this world to write grammatical prose, and to instil a few basic facts relating to the accepted concerns of Western civilization into minds hitherto untouched in this respect.
And he admitted that it might be fitting to witness the profoundest of the Lykeionian tragedies before I matriculated: there was no coincidence in its being produced just at Carnival's end, before the Spring Matriculation rituals.
But Archie said we will not be able to schedule a meeting with the Chief Optimizer until after the Matriculation is over.
The optimizers do not approve many visitation requests to the alternate living areas that are farther south—in fact, for most octospiders, the only comprehensive view of the Alternate Domain that they ever have is the tour during the last week of Matriculation.
The day after to-morrow, the 13th, Oswald has the viva voce exam for his matriculation.