Ranking
Ranking noun - A scheme of rank or order.
Scale
Scale noun - A scheme of rank or order.
Usage example: a student who scored very highly on a standard intelligence scale
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Synonyms for Scale
Ranking is a synonym for scale in hierarchy topic. You can use "Ranking" instead a noun "Scale", if it concerns topics such as graduated system.
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Then they have a vague additional ranking system that ranks players on a 4.9-6.1 scale.
Source: Four Point Scale - Basically, a scale for ranking the "hardness" of music, "hardness" being the perceived quality that separates rock from pop, Hard Rock from soft rock, Heavy Metal from Hard Rock, Death Metal from classic metal, noise from Grindcore and industrial metal, and so on and so on.
- The current system, dubbed the UK Threat Levels, doesn't use numbers at all, instead ranking the current likelihood of attack on a scale from Low to Critical (its most recent predecessor, the now-defunct BIKINI scale, used colours).
Source: Defcon Five
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