RANKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ranked mean? 

• RANKED (adjective)
  The adjective RANKED has 1 sense:

1. arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks

  Familiarity information: RANKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks

Synonyms:

graded; ranked; stratified

Context example:

stratified areas of the distribution

Similar:

hierarchal; hierarchic; hierarchical (classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers)

 Context examples 

In a separate analysis of global temperature data released at the same time, NASA scientists ranked 2017 as the second warmest year on record.

(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)

His son was bred in the service of his country, and Agatha had ranked with ladies of the highest distinction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The average U.S. temperature in 2016 was 54.9 degrees F (2.9 degrees F above average), which ranked as the second warmest year in 122 years of record-keeping.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

For the eighth consecutive year, U.S. News and World Report ranked the National Institutes of Health - developed DASH Diet “best overall” diet among nearly 40 it reviewed.

(DASH ranked Best Diet Overall for eighth year in a row by U.S. News and World Report, National Institutes of Health)

A multiple comparison adjustment method where the p-values are ranked in descending order.

(Adjusted Bonferroni Correction, NCI Thesaurus)

For example the report initiated by the primary physician may be ranked higher than those initiated by specialty consultants or support staff.

(Document Version Relationship Priority Number, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Results are ranked as steps from 0 to 10, with steps 1 through 4.5 describing MS patients who are fully ambulatory and steps 5 through 9.5 describing increasing impairment to ambulation.

(Expanded Disability Status Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Iron gates between granite pillars showed me where to enter, and passing through them, I found myself at once in the twilight of close-ranked trees.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked "No. 2: light breeze."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A recently published study that ranked 37 years of monthly sea ice extents in the Arctic and Antarctic found that there has not been a record high in Arctic sea ice extents in any month since 1986.

(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)