rank

Meaning

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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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹæŋk/

From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”). Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.