rating

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of rate

noun

1. A position on a scale.
2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
   They have a poor credit rating.
3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
   He has a high chess rating.
4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
   A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them. May 9 1961, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest
5. (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
   Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok. 2014, BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire
6. (nautical, Britain) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
   In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.
   1950, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), p. 149. Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope