by RonPurewal Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:37 am
hi,
in what context did you see this?
that term refers to an extremely general idea—basically, "you can change this thing in X number of different ways".
for instance, when it comes to the dimensions of a rectangle, you have 2 "degrees of freedom" because you can choose the length and the width independently. for a square, on the other hand, you have only 1 "degree of freedom", because everything can be determined completely from any single dimension of the square.