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Ranking vs Measuring - What's the difference?

ranking | measuring |

As nouns the difference between ranking and measuring

is that ranking is ranking, table while measuring is act of measurement.

As a verb measuring is

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ranking

English

(wikipedia 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)

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    measuring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of measurement.
  • * 1899 , Self Culture (volume 8, page 683)
    • The repeated measurings of one monument result in a mean approximation to something actually existing, and this is an excellent definition of an average.

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