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  [rang-ker] /ˈræŋ kər/ noun 1. a person who . 2. British. a soldier in the or a commissioned officer promoted from the . [rangk] /ræŋk/ adjective, ranker, rankest. 1. growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds. 2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land. 3. having an offensively strong […]

• Rankest

  [rangk] /ræŋk/ adjective, ranker, rankest. 1. growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds. 2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land. 3. having an offensively strong smell or taste: a rank cigar. 4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste. 5. utter; absolute: a rank amateur; rank treachery. 6. […]

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  [rang-kit] /ˈræŋ kɪt/ noun 1. a double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries.

• Rankin

  [rang-kin] /ˈræŋ kɪn/ noun 1. Jeannette, 1880–1973, U.S. women’s-rights leader and pacifist: first woman elected to Congress; served 1917–19, 1941–43. /ˈræŋkɪn/ noun 1. Ian. born 1960, Scottish novelist; best known for his series of novels featuring Edinburgh detective Inspector Rebus, beginning with Knots and Crosses (1987)

• Rankine-cycle

  noun, Thermodynamics. 1. the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically. /ˈræŋkɪn/ noun 1. the thermodynamic cycle in steam engines by which water is pumped into a boiler at one end and the steam is condensed at the […]

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