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Graduating person in special red costume receives diploma

Graduation is the confirmation of the finishing of an academy. Graduation is celebrated in a ceremony done at the day of that confirmation; the name of that ceremony is usually the degree day. This is also called commencement, invocation, or convocation.

Graduation also means the moving of a student from one grade to another higher grade.

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  • Suomalaisia naisylioppilaita 1906

    Finnish girl students graduating from high school, in 1906

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Acto de graduación para niños

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