Rank
Rank is the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level, etc. of a person or object within a ranking, such as:
Level or position in a hierarchical organization
- Academic rank
- Diplomatic rank
- Hierarchy
- Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
- Military rank
- Ranking member, [US politics] the most senior member of a committee from the minority party, and thus second-most senior member of a committee
Level or position in society
Rank may also refer to:
Places
- Rank, Iran, a village
- Rank, Nepal, a village development committee
People
- Rank (surname), a list of people with the name
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
- Rank (album), a live album by the Smiths
- "Rank", a song by Artwork from A Bugged Out Mix
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Rank (chess), a row of the chessboard
- Rank (film), a short film directed by David Yates
- Rank, a set of pipes in a pipe organ
Brands and enterprises
- Rank Group Limited, an investment company owned by Graeme Hart
- The Rank Group plc, European gaming and leisure business
- Rank Organisation, a British entertainment company formed in 1937, now part of the Rank Group
Computing and technology
- Rank (computer programming)
- Memory rank, or ranking, of computer memory, a set of DRAM chips connected to the same chip select, and which are able to be accessed simultaneously
Mathematics
- Rank (differential topology)
- Rank (graph theory)
- Rank (linear algebra), the dimension of the vector space generated (or spanned) by a matrix's columns
- Rank (set theory)
- Rank (type theory)
- Rank of an abelian group, the cardinality of a maximal linearly independent subset
- Rank of a free module
- Rank of a greedoid, the maximal size of a feasible set
- Rank of a group, the smallest cardinality of a generating set for the group
- Rank of a Lie group – see Cartan subgroup
- Rank of a matroid, the maximal size of an independent set
- Rank of a partition, at least two definitions in number theory
- Rank of a tensor
- Rank of a vector bundle
- Rank statistics
Science
- RANK, Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor κ B, a type I membrane protein
- Taxonomic rank, in biology (species, genus, family, etc.)
Other uses
- Rank (formation), a line of soldiers standing abreast
- Rank, a grade of coal
See also
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