rank

• Noun

  1. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
  2. One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
  3. In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
  4. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
  5. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
  6. A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
  7. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
  8. A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
  9. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
  10. The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
  11. The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
  12. The size of any basis of a given matroid.

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