Rank
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Rank refers to the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level etc. of a person or object, including:
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- Rank (chess), a row of the chessboard
- Rank of pipes in a pipe organ
- Taxicab stand or taxi rank, a designated area for taxi-cabs to queue up whilst waiting for passengers
- Rank (formation) Military term for a line of soldiers
- Rank of a playing card, typically one of { ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, jack, queen, king }
- A level within a ranking
- A level within a taxonomic hierarchy
- Taxonomic rank in biology (species, genus, family, etc.)
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An achieved level of performance or credential [edit]
- Academic rank
- Social class or social rank
- Dan (rank), a Japanese mark of level, used in modern fine arts and martial arts
- Go ranks and ratings, skill in the traditional board game Go
- See Video game journalism for video game rank
- Diplomatic rank
Position within a command hierarchy requiring obedience [edit]
- Military rank
- Police rank
- Fire service rank
- Nobility, ranks of nobility and peerage
- Catholic Church hierarchy
Mathematics [edit]
- Rank (linear algebra), rank of a matrix
- Rank of a partition, number theory
- Rank of a tensor
- Rank of a Vector bundle
- Rank of an abelian group
- See Cartan subgroup for rank of a Lie group
- Rank (set theory)
- Rank (graph theory)
- Rank (differential topology)
- Rank-into-rank
- Rank of a matroid, the maximal size of an independent set
- Rank of a greedoid, the maximal size of a feasible set
- Rank of a free module
- Ranking where values are replaced by their ranking when the data are sorted.
- Rank (computer programming)
- Rank (type theory)
- PageRank, assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents
- CheiRank, a variant of PageRank
- TrustRank, semi-automatically separates useful webpages from spam
People named Rank [edit]
- J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (1888–1972), British industrialist and film producer
- Otto Rank (1884–1939), Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, teacher and therapist
Places [edit]
Others [edit]
- RANK, Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor κ B, a type I membrane protein
- The Rank Group plc, European gaming and leisure business
- Rank Organisation, a British entertainment company formed in 1937, now part of The Rank Group
- Rank Hovis McDougall, a former United Kingdom food business
- Rank Group Limited, an investment company owned by Graeme Hart
- Rank (album), a live album by The Smiths
- "Rank", a song by Artwork from A Bugged Out Mix
- Rank (film), a short film directed by David Yates
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