graduated

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of graduate

adj

1. (obsolete) In steps.
2. Having a university degree; having completed training.
3. Marked with graduations.
4. Arranged by grade, level, degree.
   The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action. 1888, Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants, London: Whiting and Co, page 17
5. (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
6. (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.