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Optimization vs Ranking - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between optimization and ranking

is that optimization is the design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense while ranking is ranking, table.

optimization

English

Alternative forms

* optimisation

Noun

(wikipedia optimization) (en noun)
  • the design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense
  • Derived terms

    * optimization problem * continuous optimization * combinatorial optimization * convex optimization * discrete optimization * global optimization * stochastic optimization * unconstrained optimization

    See also

    * linear programming

    ranking

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (in combination) having a specified rank
  • superior
  • As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
  • *2002 , , Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban , page 176
  • *:Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated — at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One’s relative placement in a list.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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