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What is the noun for rank?

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rank
  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"].
  2. (music) 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
  4. The level of one's position in a class-based society
  5. a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military
  6. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system
  7. (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
  8. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
  9. (chess) 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.
  10. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.
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  12. Examples:
    1. “Administrative responsibilities will vary, depending on the person's rank within the organization.”
      “On one of my several excursions on the Rhine, we had aboard the steamboat an English family of high rank.”
      “When he was sure the barrage from his men would continue, Rodrik Varl ordered the next rank of horsemen and infantry toward the field.”
rankism
  1. Abuse, discrimination, or exploitation based on rank. [from 20th c.]
rankness
  1. The property of being rank, of having a repulsive odor.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Almost as angry as the descriptions of poverty was Orwell's denunciation of the chasm between prim middle-class socialists and the rickets and rankness of working-class life.”
      “Judging by the rankness of the floor and the roughness of the shadows, Peter suspected that he was in some sort of cave.”
      “Padlin felt cool, wet air against his cheeks and he caught the rankness of the East River.”
ranking
  1. One’s relative placement in a list.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She improved her ranking in the tournament to 5th the following year.”
      “The resulting values will represent the final ranking of all the candidates.”
      “St. Louis ranks second in geopolitical fragmentation in a ranking of the 25 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.”
rankability
  1. The quality of being rankable.
ranke
  1. Obsolete form of rank.
ranklessness
  1. Absence of rank.
ranknesses
rankings
  1. plural of ranking
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Victory at the Deutsche Bank championship lifts Singh to number one in the world rankings.”
      “With descent in the rankings comes the withdrawal of privileges, such as the exemptions for the majors.”
      “Ireland is ranked one place above South Africa in the IRB world rankings, in fifth place.”
rankisms
  1. plural of rankism
rankes
  1. plural of ranke
ranks
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