An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.

1) The strength of an individual card; Aces have the highest rank, followed by K, Q, J, 10,... down to deuce (2) 2) The order of denominations in the bidding. Notrump is highest-ranked denomination, followed by spades (â(tm) ), hearts (â(tm)¥), diamonds (â(tm)¦) and clubs (â(tm)£).

The value of the card. Numbered cards usually have the rank of the associated number. Aces can either be high or low. If high, aces are ranked 1. If low, aces are ranked as 14. J, Q, and K are usually ranked 11, 12, and 13 respectively. However, some games may rank these cards as 10. In such a case, a high ace might be ranked as 11.

The denomination of each card which represents the value of the card and determines its worth for various games. For example in a High game such as Holdem, a 9 is of a higher rank than an 8 and is therefore stronger. In a Low game however, typical ranking hierarchies are reversed and as such a 9 would be a weaker holding than an 8. For further information on hand strengths please visit our Hand Rankings page.

(1) the relative position of suits or cards as applied to play or bidding;(2) level achieved by a tournament player.

The ordinal position of a website among the listings of other websites displayed by search engines. Ranking

Rank displays on how well the Search Engines considers a web page for a given keyword or keyword phrase and ranks it accordingly in the Search Engine listings. (a.k.a. Search Engine Positioning - SEP). Real Video Real Video allows the quality video transmission across the web.

Where a website is listed with a Search Engine's results. The aim of Search Engine Optimisation is to improve a website's rank so that it appears nearer to top of the Results pages and so is more likely to be found by people searching for a certain topic. Just having your website listed by Search Engines does not guarantee that it will be found; it is the ranking that will decide that. (Also known as Position or Ranking)

A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.

A single set of pipe controlled by Stop producing one particular tone or timbre. Example: Trumpet, String, Flute, Clarinet, etc.

Horizontal rows on the chessboard, numbered from 1 to 8.

A horizontal line of squares on a chess board. The eight ranks are assigned the numbers from 1 to 8. The rank on which the White PIECES start is, from White's point of view, the first rank, and, from Black's point of view, the BACK RANK.

The number of dimensions of an array. A scalar has a rank of zero.

In Fortran, the number of dimensions of an array.

The number of dimension s of an array. Scalar s have a rank of zero.

a consecutive number assigned to a specific observation in a sample of observations sorted by their values, and thus reflecting the ordinal relation of the observation to others in the sample

Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.

Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.

To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

In traditional taxonomy, taxa are ranked according to their level of inclusiveness. Thus a genus contains one or more species, a family includes one or more genera, and so on.

position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"

a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.

The level at which a taxon lies in the zoological or botanical hierarchy (e.g. all families are at the same rank, which lies between subfamily and superfamily)

A classification of coal that indicates the degree of coalification or alteration from lignite to anthracite.

All classifications except Lecturer carry rank as defined in the Board of Trustees Regulations. Non-Tenure Track Faculty Classifications

The classification of coals according to their degree of metamorphism or coalification (maturation) in the natural series from lignite to anthracite. Rank is defined in the United States by the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) classification based on agglomeration characteristics , heat values, fixed carbon, and volatile matter content

the stage that a coal has reached in the transformation from peat: stages include peat, lignite, bituminous coal and anthracite

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.

A term signifying tall, vegetative cotton growth; often a result of late planting, excessive nitrogen fertilizer, fertile soils and/or excessive moisture; rank growth often renders cotton plants more attractive and susceptible to late season insects, more susceptible to bollrot and more difficult to defoliate.

very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"

A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).

Level of authority held by an officer or soldier

What Army enlisted made and others didn't.

the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel"

Relative elevation in the scale of human worth. He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why. "Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." Aramis Jukes

A system for classifying relative rot.

relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"

The relative plausibility of a Transition. If the Transition is Nominal Mode, the Rank is 0. Otherwise, for Failure Mode, the Rank is a positive number, essentially the negative of the logarithm of its prior probability.

Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

Strong to the taste.

very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"

means pungent but in the fetid, smelly, foul, stale, rancid, definitely bad way; offensive to the smell or taste and not fresh.

To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.