• Credit rating
  Credit rating
  A credit rating evaluates the credit worthiness of an issuer of specific types of debt, specifically, debt issued by a business enterprise such as a corporation or a government. It is an evaluation made by a credit rating agency of the debt issuers likelihood of default. Credit ratings are...
  
  , estimating the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation or country
• Fire-resistance rating
  Fire-resistance rating
  A fire-resistance rating typically means the duration for which a passive fire protection system can withstand a standard fire resistance test. This can be quantified simply as a measure of time, or it may entail a host of other criteria, involving other evidence of functionality or fitness for...
  
  , the duration for a passive fire protection to withstand a standard fire resistance test
• Naval rating
  Naval rating
  A Naval Rating is an enlisted member of a country's Navy, subordinate to Warrant Officers and Officers hence not conferred by commission or warrant...
  
  , an enlisted member of a country's Navy not conferred by commission or warrant
• Performance Rating, in computing, used by AMD
• Ranally city rating
  Ranally city rating system
  The Ranally city rating system is a tool developed by Rand McNally & Co. to classify U.S. cities based on their economic function. The system is designed to reflect an underlying hierarchy whereby consumers and businesses go to a city of a certain size for a certain function; some functions are...
  
  , a tool used to classify U.S. cities based on economic function
• Content rating
  Content rating
  Content rating most often means the suitability-to-audience of TV broadcasts, movies, comic books, or computer games.The introduction of Internet to the global population has revolutionized the way of consuming and gaining access to the virtually unlimited variety of contents...
  
   like the following:
• Rating site, website that allows rating
• Reputation system
  Reputation system
  A reputation system computes and publishes reputation scores for a set of objects within a community or domain, based on a collection of opinions that other entities hold about the objects...
  
  , a score for a set of objects within the community based on a collection of opinions
• Telecommunications rating
  Telecommunications rating
  In telecommunications rating is the activity of determining the cost of a particular call. The rating process involves converting call-related data into a monetary-equivalent value....
  
  , the calculated cost of a phone call
• United States presidential approval rating, a polling term which reflects the approval of the President of the United States
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
  

Entertainment

• Elo rating system
  Elo rating system
  The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor....
  
  , a rating system used in chess and in other sports and games
• Nielsen ratings
  Nielsen Ratings
  Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
  
  , United States television viewership ratings
• Motion picture rating
  Motion picture rating system
  A motion picture rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content...
  
  , categorizes films according to their suitability for adults and children
• Sports rating
  Sports rating system
  A sports rating system is a system that analyzes the results of sports competitions to provide objective ratings for each team or player. Rankings are then derived by sorting each team's ratings and assigning an ordinal rank to each team starting with the highest rated team earning the #1 rank...
  
  , analyzes the results of sports competitions
• Television content rating, categorizes TV shows based on suitability for audiences
• Video game content rating
  Video game content rating system
  A video game content rating system is a system used for the classification of video games into suitability-related groups. Most of these systems are associated with and/or sponsored by a government, and are sometimes part of the local motion picture rating system...
  
  , categorizes video games based on suitability for players

See also

• Rate (disambiguation)
• Audience measurement
  Audience measurement
  Audience measurement measures how many people are in an audience, usually in relation to radio listenership and television viewership, but also in relation to newspaper and magazine readership and, increasingly, web traffic on websites...
  
  
• Grade (education)
  Grade (education)
  Grades are standardized measurements of varying levels of comprehension within a subject area. Grades can be assigned in letters , as a range , as a number out of a possible total , as descriptors , in percentages, or, as is common in some post-secondary...
  
  
• Star (classification)
  Star (classification)
  Stars are often used as symbols for classification purposes. They are used by reviewers for ranking things such as movies, TV shows, restaurants, and hotels. For example, one to five stars is commonly employed to categorize hotels.-Restaurant ratings:...
  
  
• Likert scale
  Likert scale
  A Likert scale is a psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires. It is the most widely used approach to scaling responses in survey research, such that the term is often used interchangeably with rating scale, or more accurately the Likert-type scale, even though...
  
  
• Parental Advisory
  Parental Advisory
  Parental Advisory is a message affixed by the Recording Industry Association of America to audio and recordings in the United States containing excessive use of profane language and/or sexual references. Albums began to be labeled for "explicit lyrics" in 1985, after pressure from the Parents...