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
• Police ranks of the United States
• Ranking member, [US politics] the most senior member of a committee from the minority party, and thus second-most senior member of a committee
• Imperial, royal and noble ranks

Level or position in society

• Social class
• Social position
• Social status

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

Indian music icon sidhu moose wala

• 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
  • The Rank Organisation, a British entertainment company formed in 1937, now part of the Rank Group

Computing and technology

• Rank (computer programming)
  • Rank (J programming language)
• 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

• All pages with titles containing rank