Rank

Rank is a very broad term with several meanings. As a noun it is usually related to a relative position or to some kind of ordering (see also ranking). As an adjective it is used to mean profuse, conspicuous, absolute, or unpleasant, especially in relation to the sense of smell or taste.

Specific meanings

Position within a command hierarchy requiring obedience:
Military rank
Police rank
Fire service rank
Ranks of nobility and peerage
Catholic Church hierarchy
Diplomatic rank
Taxonomic rank - position within a taxonomy:
Taxonomic rank
An achieved level of performance or credential:
Academic rank
Social rank
Dan (rank)
Go rank
Video game rank
Rank (chess), a row of the chessboard
Rank of a playing card, typically one of { ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, jack, queen, king }
Taxi rank, a designated area for taxi-cabs to queue up whilst waiting for passengers
Rank of pipes in a pipe organ
Rank (formation) Military term for a line of soldiers
Rank (mathematics):
Rank of a matrix
Rank of a tensor
Rank of a vector bundle
Rank of an abelian group
Rank of a Lie group
Rank (set theory)
Rank (graph theory)
Rank (differential topology)
Rank-into-rank
Rank test (disambiguation)
Mean reciprocal rank
Rank of a matroid (maximal size of an independent set)
Rank of a greedoid (maximal size of a feasible set)
Rank of a free module
RANK (Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor κ B)
Rank (computer programming)
Rank in J
OpenRank Open source ranking project
Rank, Nepal

Derived proper nouns

PageRank, TrustRank

Other names

J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank and organisations associated with him:
The Rank Group
Rank Organisation
RHM formerly Rank Hovis McDougall
Otto Rank
Rank (album), a live album by The Smiths

Translation

The word "Rank" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Spanish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Danish: Rang, German: Rang, Esperanto: Rango, French: Rang, Italian: Rango, Dutch: Rang, Japanese: 階数, Norwegian (Bokmål): Rang, Polish: Ranga, Russian: Ранг, Swedish: Rang.