Rank

Generally, rank is a system of hierarchy used to classify like things. Top Ten lists are a common way to list prioritized ranks (usually as a subset of a larger pool of possibilities). Rank can refer to:

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• Position within a command hierarchy requiring obedience
• Military rank
• Police rank
• Fire service rank http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/about_us/rank_structure.asp
• Ranks of nobility and peerage
• Church rank
• An achieved level of performance or credential:
• Academic rank
• Social rank
• Go rank
• Rank order as a general concept, more specifically to military and in mathematics:
• Rank (formation) Military term for a line of soldiers. See also File (formation)
• Rank (mathematics):
• Rank (linear algebra, matrix theory)
• Rank of a tensor
• Rank of a vector bundle
• Rank of an array
• Rank of an abelian group
• Rank (set theory)
• Rank-into-rank
• Rank of a greedoid (maximum size of a feasible set)

Or a number of miscellaneous names:

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

In a pipe organ, a rank of pipes is a set tuned to a chromatic scale, and used together to play that scale. A stop may consist of one or more ranks.

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In slang, rank may refer to something foul or unplesant - Normally associated with smell.

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A taxi rank, a designated area for taxi-cabs to queue up whilst waiting for a fare.

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Hierarchy: A hierarchy (in Greek hieros, sacred, and arkho, rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things or people....

Top Ten: :For the comic book, see Top 10....

Pipe organ: This article is part of the . See that page for details....

Rank related Images and Photos (experimental)

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