Rating Explained
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
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
- Audience measurement
- Nielsen ratings, measuring viewership of United States television programs
- Sports rating system, analyzes the results of sports competitions
Polling and opinion
- Approval rating, the share of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a politician
- Cardinal voting systems, where candidates for office are assigned scores ("ratings") independently from each other
- Approval voting, a voting system that elects the candidate with the highest approval ratings
- Rating (sociological group), a Ukrainian non-governmental polling organization
- 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
- 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.
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