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A rating is an evaluation or assessment of something, in terms of quality, quantity, or some combination of both.
Rating or rating system may also refer to:
Business and economics
- Credit rating, estimating the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation or country
- Ranally city rating system, a tool used to classify U.S. cities based on economic function
- Telecommunications rating, the calculated cost of a phone call
Entertainment
- Arbitron ratings or Nielsen Audio, consumer research on radio broadcasting audiences in the United States
- Content rating, the suitability of a TV broadcast, movie, comic book, or video game to its audience
- Motion picture rating system, categorizes films according to their suitability for adults and children
- Television content rating systems, categorizes TV shows based on suitability for audiences
- Video game content rating system, categorizes video games based on suitability for players
- Audience measurement
- Nielsen ratings, measuring viewership of United States television programs
- Sports rating system, analyzes the results of sports competitions
Polling and opinion
- Rating (sociological group), a Ukrainian non-governmental polling organization
- United States presidential approval rating, the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a president
- Reputation system, programs that allow users to rate each other in online communities
Technology and engineering
- Rating (electrical), the voltage at which the appliance is designed to work
- Fire-resistance rating, the duration for a passive fire protection to withstand a standard fire resistance test
- Cetane rating, an indicator of the combustion speed of diesel fuel and compression needed for ignition
- Octane rating, a standard measure of the performance of an engine or aviation fuel
- Performance Rating, formerly a method of comparing x86 computer processors
- Power rating, in electrical or mechanical engineering, the highest power input allowed to flow through particular equipment
Other uses
- Rating (chess), estimate of the strength of a player, based on performance versus other players
- Elo rating system, a rating system used in chess and in other sports and games
- Rating (clinical trials), the process by which a human evaluator subjectively judges the response of a patient to a medical treatment
- Rating (wine), score assigned by one or more wine critics to a wine
- Rating site, a website designed for users to vote on or rate people or content
- Naval rating, an enlisted member of a navy or coast guard defined by rank and job description.
- Health care ratings, evaluations of health care
- Rating system of the Royal Navy - an historic method to classify ship by how heavily armed they are. Applied to other navies vessels as a comparisor.
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Rating
- All pages with titles containing Rating
- Rate (disambiguation)
- Television ratings (disambiguation)
- Grading in education, standardized measurements of varying levels of achievement
- Star (classification), symbols often used for ratings
- Likert scale, a psychometric scale commonly involved in research
- Parental Advisory, a warning label placed on audio recordings in recognition of excessive profanities or inappropriate references
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