Rank is the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level, etc. of a person or object within a
ranking
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second.
In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of o ...
Hierarchy
A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...
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Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
The hierarchy of the Catholic Church consists of its bishops, priests, and deacons. In the ecclesiological sense of the term, "hierarchy" strictly means the "holy ordering" of the Church, the Body of Christ, so to respect the diversity of gif ...
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Military rank
Military ranks are a system of hierarchical relationships, within armed forces, police, intelligence agencies or other institutions organized along military lines. The military rank system defines dominance, authority, and responsibility in a ...
Ranking member
In United States politics, a ranking member is the most senior member of a congressional or state legislative committee from the minority party. On many committees the ranking minority member, along with the Chair, serve as ''ex officio'' members ...
Social class
A social class is a grouping of people into a set of Dominance hierarchy, hierarchical social categories, the most common being the Upper class, upper, Middle class, middle and Working class, lower classes. Membership in a social class can for ...
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Social position
Social position is the position of an individual in a given society and culture. A given position (for example, the occupation of ''priest'') may belong to many individuals.
Definition
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Social status
Social status is the level of social value a person is considered to possess. More specifically, it refers to the relative level of respect, honour, assumed competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society. Stat ...
Places
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Rank, Iran
Rank ( fa, رانك, also Romanized as Rānk) is a village in Polan Rural District, Polan District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 304, in 54 families.
References
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, a village
* Rank, Nepal, a village development committee
People
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Rank (surname) Rank is the surname of:
* J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (1888–1972), British industrialist and film producer
* Joseph Rank (1854-1943), founder of Rank Hovis McDougall, one of the UK's largest food production and flour-milling businesses
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* 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
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks ...
Brands and enterprises
* Rank Group Limited, an investment company owned by
Graeme Hart
Graeme Richard Hart (born 1955) is a New Zealand billionaire businessman and the country's wealthiest person.The Rank Group plc, European gaming and leisure business
** The Rank Organisation, a British entertainment company formed in 1937, now part of the Rank Group
Rank of an abelian group
In mathematics, the rank, Prüfer rank, or torsion-free rank of an abelian group ''A'' is the cardinality of a maximal linearly independent subset. The rank of ''A'' determines the size of the largest free abelian group contained in ''A''. If ''A'' ...
, the cardinality of a maximal linearly independent subset
* Rank of a
free module
In mathematics, a free module is a module that has a basis – that is, a generating set consisting of linearly independent elements. Every vector space is a free module, but, if the ring of the coefficients is not a division ring (not a field in t ...
* Rank of a
greedoid
In combinatorics, a greedoid is a type of set system. It arises from the notion of the matroid, which was originally introduced by Whitney in 1935 to study planar graphs and was later used by Edmonds to characterize a class of optimization proble ...
, 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
In algebraic geometry, a Cartan subgroup of a connected linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed field is the centralizer of a maximal torus (which turns out to be connected). Cartan subgroups are nilpotent and are all conjugate.
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* 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
In mathematics, a tensor is an algebraic object that describes a multilinear relationship between sets of algebraic objects related to a vector space. Tensors may map between different objects such as vectors, scalars, and even other tenso ...
* Rank of a
vector bundle
In mathematics, a vector bundle is a topological construction that makes precise the idea of a family of vector spaces parameterized by another space X (for example X could be a topological space, a manifold, or an algebraic variety): to every po ...
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Rank statistics
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second.
In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of ...
Science
* RANK, Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor κ B, a type I membrane protein
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Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family (biology), family, order (biology), order, class (b ...
, in biology (species, genus, family, etc.)
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Rank (formation)
A rank is a line of military personnel, drawn up in line abreast (i.e. standing side by side).
Usage
Commonly, you start out with a height line. Shortest person in front, all the way to the tallest person in the rear. Subsequently, when troop/ ...
, a line of soldiers standing abreast
* Rank, a
grade of coal
Coal analysis techniques are specific analytical methods designed to measure the particular physical and chemical properties of coals. These methods are used primarily to determine the suitability of coal for coke (fuel), coking, power generation o ...