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RANKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ranking mean?
• RANKING (noun)
The noun RANKING has 1 sense:
1. position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement
Familiarity information: RANKING used as a noun is very rare.
• RANKING (adjective)
The adjective RANKING has 1 sense:
1. having a higher rank
Familiarity information: RANKING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ranking" is a kind of...):
standing (social or financial or professional status or reputation)
Derivation:
rank (take or have a position relative to others)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a higher rank
Synonyms:
higher-ranking; ranking; superior
Context example:
superior officer
Similar:
senior (older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service)
Context examples
A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a suborder and above a family.
(Infraorder, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a subclass and above an order.
(Infraclass, NCI Thesaurus)
A ranking of the poisonous nature of an object as determined by a laboratory test.
(Laboratory Test Toxicity Grade, NCI Thesaurus)
A formal ranking system of the strength of evidence linked to a reported result.
(Level of Evidence, NCI Thesaurus)
A ranking system used to describe the strength of the results measured in a clinical trial or research study.
(Levels of evidence, NCI Dictionary)
A ranking of the relationship between various foods and glucose blood serum levels.
(Glycemic index, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic category ranking below a family (or Subfamily) and above a species and generally consisting of a group of species exhibiting similar characteristics.
(Genus, NCI Thesaurus)
This study demonstrates lifetime fertility reductions for baboons born during stressful conditions or to low-ranking mothers.
(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)
Dayside temperatures reach between 3,600 and 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 and 3,000 degrees Celsius), ranking ultrahot Jupiters among the hottest exoplanets on record.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
Precipitation for the year totaled 31.70 inches, ranking as the 24th wettest year.
(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)
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