graduated

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having a university degree; having completed training.
2. (not-comparable)Marked with graduations.
3. (not-comparable)Arranged by grade, level, or 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.”

4. (not-comparable)Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
5. (not-comparable)Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
6. (not-comparable, obsolete)In steps.

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of graduate