Adjective

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

Positive ranking

Comparative more ranking

Superlative most ranking

  1. (in combination) having a specified rank
  2. superior
    As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.

Noun

Singular ranking

Plural rankings

ranking (plural rankings)

  1. One’s relative placement in a list.

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Sun Dec 27 04:52:40 2009

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.

From Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License
Wed Dec 2 00:13:50 2009

Is there a world ranking system for individual professional volleyball players set by FIVB?
Q. I noticed on the FIVB website that their rankings are per team. I was just curious if they have set a ranking system based on individual players' performance?
Asked by yaelski - Thu Sep 6 01:01:12 2007 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Yes, they have a ranking system. It is at Here is how they figure it. The 2007 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour champions for men and women will be determined by calculating the points for a team s best 13 finishes for men and 12 for women based on 75 percent of the men s (18) and women's (17) events staged this season and rounded down.
Answered by gordonmorrison - Thu Sep 6 06:52:11 2007

How to get more visitors and increase my page ranking to my website?
Q. My website currently have over 100,000 articles, but still have not much visitors, and the google page ranking is still zero. How can I get more visitors and how to improve my google page ranking, Thank you
Asked by articles owner - Sat Mar 29 08:42:47 2008 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The problem your site may have is that it's a subdomain. For your site to be recognised by major search engines i.e. Google, you will need a designated domain. Have you thought of doing this? There are really inexpensive hosting companies out there, I particularly like nearlyfreespeech.net, they offer a pay per bandwidth option which is really cheap. Once you have a registered domain it's just a matter of transferring all your articles from your present subdomain to new domain. Contact me if you have any questions.
Answered by Neil - Thu Apr 3 04:04:49 2008

What is my organic search engine ranking?
Q. Is it possible to find out how my website is ranked for a specific keyword? And I mean for organic search results. I'd like to just enter a keyword and my url and get a ranking for Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. Is it possible to find this out somewhere?
Asked by nagyagi81 - Fri Apr 17 21:06:52 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Yes ! I have an exact solution to your problem. But you will have to say thanks in advance then I will tell ( :D ) Assuming that you have said thanks, Here goes the link... Wait ! Do not click here before saying thanks.
Answered by Mishra - Top Contributor - Tue Apr 21 17:29:10 2009

From Yahoo Answer Search: "ranking"
Sat Nov 21 00:23:03 2009

Mr. (Tubby) Smith goes to the upper-half of the Big Ten? - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Mr. (Tubby) Smith goes to the upper-half of the Big Ten?

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Big Ten predicted order of finish: **note that all of the rankings are from realtimerpi.com. The RPI (ratings percentage index) is the main ranking the NCAA ...

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Perfect Purdue still must fix some flaws Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

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Students always at the forefront of democratisation movements in Iran were not allowed to mark their national day on 16 Azar (7 December); high- ranking ...



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Ranking North American cites for their music mojo - Jazzblog.ca

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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:04:00 GM

Jazzblog.ca covers the Canadian jazz scene and offers insights into jazz history, the latest jazz trends, and the best new jazz recordings.

Difference in Page Ranking of Yahoo and Google
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Difference in Page Ranking of Yahoo and Google

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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:43:10 GM

PageRank does matter in the current scenario of web sites usage and penetration to diverse domains of the world because it is one of the factors that determine a page's . ranking. in the search results. Although this is not the only factor ...

balticbusinessnews.com - Climate measures: Estonia's ranking falls ...
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ue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:18 GM

A comparison of 57 countries puts Estonia in 34th place in measures to protect the global climate and was ranked as "moderate".

From Google Blog Search: "ranking"
Thu Dec 17 11:14:08 2009