Rating

A rating is the evaluation or assessment of something, in terms of quality (as with a critic rating a novel), quantity (as with an athlete being rated by his or her statistics), or some combination of both.

Rating may also refer to:

• Credit rating, estimating the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation or country
• Fire-resistance rating, the duration for a passive fire protection to withstand a standard fire resistance test
• Naval rating, an enlisted member of a country's Navy not conferred by commission or warrant
• Health care provider ratings
• Performance Rating, in computing, used by AMD
• Ranally city rating, a tool used to classify U.S. cities based on economic function
• Power rating, defined as the highest power input allowed to flow through particular equipment.
• Content rating like the following:

• Web content voting, a system where users rate Web content
• Rating site, website that allows rating
• Reputation system, a score for a set of objects within the community based on a collection of opinions
• Telecommunications rating, the calculated cost of a phone call
• United States presidential approval rating, a polling term which reflects the approval of the President of the United States

Entertainment

• Elo rating system, a rating system used in chess and in other sports and games
• "Arbitron ratings", United States radio listenership ratings measured by Arbitron (now known as Nielsen Audio)
• Motion picture rating, categorizes films according to their suitability for adults and children
• Nielsen ratings, measuring viewership of United States television programs
• Sports rating, analyzes the results of sports competitions
• Television content rating, categorizes TV shows based on suitability for audiences
• Video game content rating, categorizes video games based on suitability for players

Petroleum

• Cetane number
• Octane rating

Polling organization

• Sociological group "RATING"

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rating
• All pages with titles containing Rating
• Rate (disambiguation)
• Audience measurement
• Grade (education)
• Star (classification)
• Likert scale
• Parental Advisory