ranks

Meaning of ranks

noun
  1. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].
    The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
  2. In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
  3. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
    Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
  4. The level of one's position in a class-based society
  5. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military
    He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.
  6. A level in a scientific taxonomy system
    Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
  7. Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
  8. The dimensionality of an array or tensor.
  9. The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
  10. The size of any basis of a given matroid.
  11. One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.
  12. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.
verb
  1. To place abreast, or in a line.
  2. To have a ranking.
    Their defense ranked third in the league.
  3. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
  4. To take rank of; to outrank.

Information about ranks

  • The singular form of ranks is: rank.
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Hyphenation of ranks

ranks

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • ranks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of ranks

karns, knars, krans, narks, skran, Snark, snark

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