Definition of Rank order

1. Noun. An arrangement according to rank.

Generic synonyms: Order, Ordering

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rank Order

ranimustine
ranine
ranine artery
ranine tumour
ranis
ranitidine
ranivore
rank
rank(a)
rank-difference correlation
rank-difference correlation coefficient
rank-order correlation
rank-order correlation coefficient
rank and file
rank and yank
rank order (current term)
rankachite
rankamaite
ranke
ranked
ranker
rankers
rankes
rankest
ranking
ranking(a)
rankings
rankinite
rankish
rankism

Literary usage of Rank order

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. School Statistics and Publicity by Carter Alexander (1919)
"COMBINING DATA GIVEN IN rank order ONLY The school administrator often faces a problem which involves a summary for the relative merits of a number of items ..."

2. The Psychological Methods of Testing Intelligence by William Stern (1914)
"Plainly, this is possible only when the rank- orders obtained by the tests deviate from the rank- order obtained by estimation in contrary directions in ..."

3. Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes, George Alfred Henty, Arthur Griffiths (1896)
"... IN RANK, ORDER AS MUCH AS YOU PLEASED" (/. 95). cr important points bearing on the capital ailing into the hands of the Confeder- K'ii was surrounded. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The horizontal direction (dimension 3) has a Spearman rank-order correlation ... 3 (dimension 4) has a rank-order correlation of 0.74 (significant at less ..."

5. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"be low, humble, of low rank, of low height. rank order ... put in rank order, enumerate. ranking line ..."

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