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rank¹

1. any of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard

2. Music a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop

3. Maths (of a matrix) the largest number of linearly independent rows or columns; the number of rows (or columns) of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be extracted from the matrix

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rank²

Botany showing vigorous and profuse growth

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Rank

1. J(oseph) Arthur, 1st Baron. 1888--1972, British industrialist and film executive, whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s

2. Otto . 1884--1939, Austrian psychoanalyst, noted for his theory that the trauma of birth may be reflected in certain forms of mental illness