Degrees of freedom

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In physics, the number of degrees of freedom (DOF) of a mechanical system is the number of independent parameters required to completely specify its configuration or state.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Degrees of freedom (mechanics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia