GRADUATION, in the arts, the process of accelerating evaporation by exposing a large surface of the liquid operated on to a current of air.
GRÆCIA MAGNA (ἡ μεγάλη Ἑλλάς), in Ancient Geography, a collective name for the numerous Greek colonies which at an early age were established along the southern, south-eastern, and south-western shores of Italy. The term, however, is never used in a territorial sense to signify the southern half of the Italian peninsula, but is restricted entirely to the Greek cities on coasts.