Crossword clues for ranking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rank \Rank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ranked (r[a^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Ranking.]
To place abreast, or in a line.
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To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
Ranking all things under general and special heads.
--I. Watts.Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
--Broome.Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.
--Dr. H. More. To take rank of; to outrank. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
1 (context in combination English) having a specified rank 2 superior n. One’s relative placement in a list. v
(present participle of rank English)
WordNet
adj. of the highest rank; used of persons; "the commanding officer" [syn: commanding, top-level, top-ranking]
having a higher rank; "superior officer" [syn: ranking(a), superior, higher-ranking]
n. position on a scale in relation to others in a sport
Wikipedia
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either 'ranked higher than', 'ranked lower than' or 'ranked equal to' the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of objects. It is not necessarily a total order of objects because two different objects can have the same ranking. The rankings themselves are totally ordered. For example, materials are totally preordered by hardness, while degrees of hardness are totally ordered.
By reducing detailed measures to a sequence of ordinal numbers, rankings make it possible to evaluate complex information according to certain criteria. Thus, for example, an Internet search engine may rank the pages it finds according to an estimation of their relevance, making it possible for the user quickly to select the pages they are likely to want to see.
Analysis of data obtained by ranking commonly requires non-parametric statistics.
Ranking of query results is one of the fundamental problems in information retrieval (IR), the scientific/engineering discipline behind search engines. Given a query and a collection of documents that match the query, the problem is to rank, that is, sort, the documents in according to some criterion so that the "best" results appear early in the result list displayed to the user. Classically, ranking criteria are phrased in terms of relevance of documents with respect to an information need expressed in the query.
Ranking is often reduced to the computation of numeric scores on query/document pairs; a baseline score function for this purpose is the cosine similarity between tf–idf vectors representing the query and the document in a vector space model, BM25 scores, or probabilities in a probabilistic IR model. A ranking can then be computed by sorting documents by descending score. An alternative approach is to define a score function on pairs of documents that is positive if and only if is more relevant to the query than and using this information to sort.
Ranking functions are evaluated by a variety of means; one of the simplest is determining the precision of the first k top-ranked results for some fixed k; for example, the proportion of the top 10 results that are relevant, on average over many queries.
Frequently, computation of ranking functions can be simplified by taking advantage of the observation that only the relative order of scores matters, not their absolute value; hence terms or factors that are independent of the document may be removed, and terms or factors that are independent of the query may be precomputed and stored with the document.
Usage examples of "ranking".
The challenge, drawn up in strict accordance with the old military code of honor by General Beck himself, was given to General von Rundstedt, as the senior ranking Army officer, to deliver to the head of the S.
The Russians could not help noting that whereas the British had sent the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Edmund Ironside, to Warsaw in July for military talks with the Polish General Staff, they did not consider sending this ranking British officer to Moscow.
Specifically, he proposed that in that case the ranking generals should all resign at once.
These additional penalties were assessed at a grotesque meeting of a dozen German cabinet ministers and ranking officials presided over by the corpulent Field Marshal on November 12, a partial stenographic record of which survives.
To the Federalists, the bill was a flagrant attempt to diminish the power of the President to the benefit of the Senate, and they adamantly objected, arguing that the removal of ranking officials in the executive branch must be at the sole discretion of the President.
The hell of it is that as they march him out in the smelly fatigues and the squelching boondockers they will call him Sir and they will treat him with the courtesy appropriate to a ranking officer even though he no longer deserves it.
But I am going to execute you as the ranking officer of this unit of the Venetian Corfiote Army.
Many men like Sher Dil, high ranking regular army officers, were not so sure and said so.
Much more had occurred regarding the strange object before Curley - now given status as Druid, a ranking number of the druidical hierarchy - gained permission to contact his long-separated companions.
Thirdly, it is intrinsically absurd to suppose that an institution of gross immorality and cruelty could have flourished in the most polite and refined Greek nation, as the Eleusinian Mysteries did for over eighteen hundred years, ranking among its members a vast majority of both sexes, of all classes, of all ages, and constantly celebrating its rites before immense audiences of them all.
In a ranking, vegetables would come out on top, with fruits coming in second and grains a distant third.
Noel Hinners, Associate Deputy Administrator, the third highest ranking official at NASA.
If Nozawa fans had the same ranking as judoka, Tabuchi would be a black-belt tenth dan, undefeated for his entire career.
Sometimes masters do not appoint a first girl in order that the lower ranking girls will strive ever more desperately to please them, to become favorites, and thus to be to some extent more protected.
Iwakura Mission was the presence on it of so many ranking officials, who obviously felt that visiting the West at this time warranted their leaving Japan only three years after the convulsion that gave birth to the Meiji government.