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Definition: Military Rank |
Military RankNoun1. Rank in a military organization. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Military RankSynonyms: military rating (n), paygrade (n), rating (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Within military organizations, the use of ranks is almost universal. The Chinese People's Liberation Army of the 1960s and 1970s is a rare example of a military which attempted (quite unsuccessfully) to abolish rank.
The use of formalized ranks came into widespread use with the Roman Legions, after the introduction of reforms by the consul Gaius Marius which were completed around 60 CE.
In the new system a legion would be commanded by a legatus, typically a senator given a three-year term.
Immediately under the legatus were six tribunes, five senior officers and one nobleman who was headed for the Senate.
The fighting men in the legion were formed into ranks, rows of men who fought as a unit.
In the new system these were divided into groups of ten cohorts, each consisting of six centuries of 100 men.
Each century was led by a centurion.
Additional centurions served as scribes and filled other duties.
Centuries were further broken into ten contubernia, of eight soldiers each.
Individual soldiers were referred to as miles or legionarius.
Most modern military services recognize three broad categories of serviceman.
These are codified in the Geneva Conventions.
Roman Ranks
Modern Ranks
Typical Army Commissioned Officer Ranks and Responsibilities
| a | is typically led by | consists of |
|---|---|---|
| Army Group | General or Field Marshal | several Armies |
| Army | General | several Corps |
| Corps | Lieutenant General | several Divisions |
| Division | Major General | several Regiments or Brigades |
| Brigade or Regiment | Brigadier General or Colonel | several Battalions |
| Battalion or Task Force | Lieutenant Colonel | several Companies |
| Major | ||
| Company | Captain | several Platoons |
| Platoon | First or Second Lieutenant | several squads or sections |
Many of these ranks are recent additions. The basic unit of an army up to about the 16th century was the Company which is still known as a Troop in the cavalry and Battery in the artillery. By the 18th century and into the 19th century, the Regiment formed the basic army unit, broken into companies sometimes arranged as Battalions. Brigades and Divisions are more recent additions, with the Brigade replacing the Regiment outright in the British Army. The Division is now the lowest regular army unit that is equipped and supplied to routinely operate independently in the field. (Armored Cavalry Regiments and Special Operations teams are the exception.)
During most of the time since the fall of the Roman Empire the head of the military forces has been the King, often leading in person. This role, if filled, has since been passed on to dedicated military officers known either as General of the Army or Field Marshal.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Military rank."
Crosswords: Military Rank |
| English words defined with "military rank": chevron, commissioned ♦ field marshal, Full pay ♦ grade insignia ♦ In chief ♦ Judge-Advocate General ♦ Mareschal, marshal, Marshall, military rating ♦ paygrade ♦ rating ♦ Salvation Army, shoulder patch, stripe, stripes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "military rank": Epaulet ♦ resign, Re-sign ♦ tiger team. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | Bakhchiev had been convicted of receiving a special military rank and other offenses. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
military rank | 699 |
us military rank | 56 |
military rank and insignia | 54 |
military rank structure | 31 |
german military rank | 21 |
u.s military rank | 16 |
military rank chart | 15 |
in military rank | 14 |
british military rank | 12 |
military rank abbreviation | 9 |
us military rank and insignia | 5 |
enlisted military rank | 4 |
military rank symbol | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "military rank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | sotilasarvo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | katonai rendfokozat (military grade). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 大尉 (military rank of captain). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilitarymay ankray воинское звание. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-k-l-m-n-r-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: animality. | |
-4 letters: arrantly, laminary, larrikin, limitary, military, trimaran. | |
-5 letters: airmail, aminity, anality, anility, antiair, intimal, laminar, laniary, malarky, marital, martial, martian, martini, matinal, miliary, mirkily, rainily, riantly, tamarin, trinary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 69 6C 69 74 61 72 79 52 61 6E 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010010 01100001 01101110 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i l i t a r y   R a n k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 006C 0069 0074 0061 0072 0079 0052 0061 006E 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4775787586678491252678077 |
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